139:1  To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.

139:2  Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

139:3  My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And `with' all my ways hast been acquainted.

139:4  For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

139:5  Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.

139:6  Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.

139:7  Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?

139:8  If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou `art', And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

139:9  I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,

139:10  Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me.

139:11  And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

139:12  Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.

139:13  For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

139:14  I confess Thee, because that `with' wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful `are' Thy works, And my soul is knowing `it' well.

139:15  My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.

139:16  Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.

139:17  And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!

139:18  I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

139:19  Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!

139:20  Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity `are' Thine enemies.

139:21  Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?

139:22  `With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.

139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

139:24  And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!