Psalms 139

¹ O Yahweh, You have investigated me and are knowing me; ² You Yourself know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar; ³ My path and my pallet You have measured off, And for all my ways You have made provision. ⁴ For though there be no declaration on my tongue, Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all. ⁵ Back and front, You have besieged me, And You set Your palm upon me. ⁶ Such knowledge is marvelous beyond me; It is impregnable; I cannot reach to it. ⁷ Whither could I go from Your spirit, And whither could I run away from Your presence? ⁸ If I should climb to the heavens, You are there, And should I make my berth in the unseen, behold, You are there. ⁹ Should I wear the wings of dawn, Should I tabernacle in the hindmost sea, ¹⁰ Even there Your hand would guide me, And Your right hand, it would hold me. ¹¹ If I said, Surely darkness, it snuffed me up, And night is belted about me, ¹² Even darkness, it is not darkening to You, And the night, as the day, is giving light; Darkness is as light. ¹³ For You Yourself achieved the making of my innermost being; You overshadowed me in my mother's belly. ¹⁴ I shall acclaim You, for You are fearfully distinguished; Marvelous are Your works. You have known my soul very thoroughly; ¹⁵ My skeleton was not suppressed from You, When I was made in concealment; I was woven together as in the nether parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo, And my days, all of them were written upon Your scroll; The days were formed When there was not one of them. ¹⁷ How precious are Your thoughts to me, O El, How plentiful are their sums: ¹⁸ If I number them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with You. ¹⁹ O that You would despatch the wicked, O Eloah, And bloodthirsty men would withdraw from me, ²⁰ Those who speak of You with evil scheming; They bear words of hypocrisy against You. ²¹ Do I not hate those hating You, O Yahweh, And with those rising against You, am I not disgusted? ²² With complete hatred I hate them; They have become enemies to me. ²³ Search me out, O El, and know my heart; Test me, and know my disquieting thoughts. ²⁴ See if a grievous way is in me, And guide me in the way eonian.