ULT PSA Chapter 139

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For the chief musician; of David; a psalm.

Yahweh, you have searched me

and you know, me.

2 You, you know my sitting down and my rising up;

you understand my thought from far away.

3 My path and my lying down you have winnowed,

and you are familiar with all of my ways.

4 For there is not a word on my tongue;

behold, Yahweh, you know all of it.

5 Behind and before you have enclosed me,

and you have set your palm upon me.

6 Such knowledge, is too wonderful for me;

it is high; I am not capable of it.

7 Where shall I go from your spirit?

And where shall I flee from your face?

8 If I ascend, to the heavens, you, are there,

and I spread out, in Sheol, behold, you!

9 If I lift up the wings of the dawn,

dwell in the farthest part of the sea,

10 even there your hand will lead me,

and your right hand will hold me.

11 And I said, “Surely darkness will crush me,

and night, the light around me.”

12 Even darkness does not make it dark to you,

and the night shines like the day;

like darkness, like light.

13 For you, you created my kidneys;

you knit me together in the womb of my mother.

14 I will thank you because fearsomely,

I am wonderfully made.

Wonderful, are your works,

and my soul knows, it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed substance.

And in your book all of them were written:

the days were formed,

and, yet not one of them, was.

17 And to me, how precious are your thoughts, God!

How numerous are their heads!

18 If I should count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake, and I, am still with you.

19 If only you would kill the wicked, God!

And men of bloodshed, depart from me,

20 who speak of you for an evil purpose;

they lift up, your name to emptiness—your enemies.

21 Do I not hate the ones hating you, Yahweh?

And do I not loathe the ones rising up against you?

22 With a completeness of hatred I hate them;

they have become enemies to me.

23 Search me, God, and know my heart;

examine me and know my cares.

24 And see if a way of hurtfulness, is in me,

and lead me in the way of eternity.