Book of Psalms, No. 139
Psalms 139 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 139 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ O Jehovah, you have searched through me, and you know [me].1
- ¶ You yourself have come to know my sitting down and my rising up.2
You have considered my thought from far off.3 - ¶ My journeying and my lying outstretched you have measured off,4
And you have become familiar even with all my ways.5 - ¶ For there is not a word on my tongue,6
But, look! O Jehovah, you already know it all.7 - ¶ Behind and before, you have besieged me;
And you place your hand upon me. - ¶ [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me.8
It is so high up that I cannot attain to it.9 - ¶ Where can I go from your spirit,[a]10
And where can I run away from your face?11 - ¶ If I should ascend to heaven, there you would be;12
And if I should spread out my couch in Sheʹol,[b] look! you [would be there].13 - ¶ Were I to take the wings14 of the dawn,
That I might reside in the most remote sea,15 - ¶ There, also, your own hand would lead me16
And your right hand would lay hold of me.17 - ¶ And were I to say: “Surely darkness itself will hastily seize me!”18
Then night would be light about me.19 - ¶ Even the darkness itself would not prove too dark for you,20
But night itself would shine just as the day does;21
The darkness might just as well be the light.[c]22 - ¶ For you yourself produced my kidneys;23
You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother.24 - ¶ I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made.25
Your works are wonderful,26
As my soul is very well aware.27 - ¶ My bones were not hidden from you28
When I was made in secret,29
When I was woven in the lowest parts[d]30 of the earth. - ¶ Your eyes saw even the embryo of me,31
And in your book all its parts were down in writing,
¶ As regards the days when they were formed32
And there was not yet one among them. - ¶ So, to me how precious your thoughts are!33
O God,[e] how much does the grand sum of them amount to!34 - ¶ Were I to try to count them, they are more than even the grains of sand.35
I have awaked,[f] and yet I am still with you.36 - ¶ O that you, O God,[g] would slay the wicked one!37
Then even the bloodguilty men[h]38 will certainly depart from me, - ¶ Who say things about you according to [their] idea;39
They have taken up [your name] in a worthless way40—your adversaries.41 - ¶ Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you, O Jehovah,42
And do I not feel a loathing for those revolting against you?43 - ¶ With a complete hatred I do hate them.44
They have become to me real enemies.45 - ¶ Search through me, O God,[i] and know my heart.46
Examine me, and know my disquieting thoughts,47 - ¶ And see whether there is in me any painful way,48
And lead me in the way49 of time indefinite.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “From your spirit.” Heb., me·ru·cheʹkha; Gr., pneuʹma·tosʹ; Lat., spiʹri·tu.
- ^ “Sheol.” Heb., sheʼohlʹ; Gr., haiʹden; Syr., la·shiul; Lat., in·ferʹnum. See App 4B.
- ^ Lit., “like the darkness, like the light”; or, “as the darkness, so the light.”
- ^ “Lowest parts.” Compare 63:9 ftn.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
- ^ “I have come to my end,” three Heb. mss.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElohʹah.
- ^ Or, “bloodthirsty men.” Lit., “men of bloods.”
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
REFERENCES
- ^ 1Sa 16:7; 1Ki 8:39; 1Ch 28:9; Ps 17:3; 44:21; 139:23; Je 12:3; 20:12; Heb 4:13
- ^ Ge 16:13; 2Ki 19:27; Is 37:28
- ^ Ps 33:13; 94:11; Eze 38:10; Mt 9:4
- ^ Ge 28:15; 2Sa 8:14; Jb 31:4; Ps 121:8
- ^ Ps 33:15; Pr 5:21; Is 29:15; Ac 5:3
- ^ Ps 19:14
- ^ Ps 50:21; Heb 4:12
- ^ Jb 42:3; Ps 40:5; 131:1; Ro 11:33
- ^ Jb 26:14; Pr 30:3
- ^ Ac 5:9
- ^ Je 23:24; Jon 1:3
- ^ Am 9:2; Ob 4
- ^ Jb 26:6; Pr 15:11
- ^ Ps 18:10
- ^ Ps 65:5; Is 11:11; 24:14
- ^ Ps 63:8
- ^ Ps 73:23; Is 41:13
- ^ Ps 94:7; Is 29:15; Je 23:24
- ^ Jb 12:22
- ^ Ex 20:21
- ^ Jb 34:22; Da 2:22
- ^ Heb 4:13
- ^ Jb 10:9
- ^ Jb 10:8; 31:15; Ps 22:10; Is 46:3; Jn 3:4
- ^ Ge 1:26; Ps 22:9; 71:6; 100:3; Is 44:2; Je 1:5
- ^ Ps 19:1; 92:5; 104:24; 111:2
- ^ Re 15:3
- ^ Jb 10:11; Ec 11:5
- ^ Jb 10:9
- ^ Eph 4:9
- ^ Jb 1:21; 10:18; Ps 127:3
- ^ Jb 31:15
- ^ Is 55:9
- ^ Ro 11:33
- ^ Ps 40:5
- ^ Ps 3:5; 17:15; 63:6
- ^ Ps 5:6; 9:17; 94:23
- ^ 1Ki 2:5
- ^ Jb 21:14; Ps 21:11; 73:8; Pr 24:8
- ^ Ex 20:7; Jd 15
- ^ Is 64:2
- ^ 2Ch 19:2; Ps 21:8; 81:15; 2Co 6:14
- ^ Ps 119:158
- ^ Ps 101:3
- ^ Ps 37:12, 32
- ^ Je 20:12
- ^ Ps 94:19
- ^ Ps 7:3; 17:3
- ^ Ps 5:8; 143:8, 10
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