Psalms 139
1 Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know [everything about] me.
For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up. [Even though you are] far away from me, you know what I am thinking.
You know my down-sitting and mine up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before.
3 When I travel and when I lie down, you know everything that I do.
You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
4 Yahweh, even before I say [MTY] anything, you know everything that I am going to say!
For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things,
5 You protect me on all sides; you put your hand on me [to protect me with your power] [MTY].
the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.
6 I am not able to understand that you know [everything about me]. That is too great for me to really understand.
The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.
7 (Where could I go to escape from your Spirit?/I could not go anywhere to escape from your Spirit.) [RHQ] (Where could I go to get away from you?/I could not go anywhere to get away from you.) [RHQ]
Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?
8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there. If I lay down in the place where the dead people are, you would be there. (Sheol h7585)
If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I had wings and flew very far east [MTY], or if I flew west and made a place to live [on an island] in the ocean,
If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],
10 you would be there also, to lead me by your hand, and you would help me.
for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me.
11 I could request the darkness to hide me, or I could request the light around me to become darkness,
When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
12 but even [if that happened], the darkness would not be darkness for you! For you, the night is [as bright] as the daytime is, because for you, daylight and darkness are (not different/the same).
For darkness will not be darkness with you; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light [be to you].
13 You created [all] the parts of my body; you put [the parts of] my body together when I was still in my mother’s womb.
For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because you made my [body in a very] awesome and wonderful way. Everything that you do is amazing! I know that very well.
I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows [it] well.
15 When my body was being formed, while it was being put together where no one else could see it, you saw it!
My bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 You saw me before I was born. You wrote in your book the number of days that you had decided that I would live. You did that before any of those days had [even] started!
Your eyes saw my unwrought [substance], and all [men] shall be written in your book; they shall be formed by day, though [there should for a time] be no one among them.
17 God, what you think about me is very precious (OR, is very hard to understand). There is a great number of things that you think about.
But your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.
18 If I could count them, [I would see that] they are more than the grains of sand [at the seashore]. And when I wake up, I am still with you [and I know that there are still more of your thoughts about me to count].
I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you.
19 God, I desire that you would kill all the wicked people! And I wish that violent [MTY] men would (leave/go away from) me.
Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you men of blood.
20 They say wicked/malicious things about you; they slander your name.
For you will say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take your cities in vain.
21 Yahweh, I certainly [RHQ] hate those who hate you! And I despise [RHQ] those who rebel against you.
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
22 I hate them completely, and I consider that they are my enemies.
I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
23 God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!
Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;
24 Find out whether there is anything evil in my [inner being], and lead me along the road [that leads to my being with you] forever.
and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
