Psalms 138
1O Lord, you have proved me, and known me. 1
2You know my down-sitting and my up-rising: you understand my thoughts + 138:2 Gr. from afar. long before. 1
3You have traced my path and my + 138:3 q.d. of rushes, lit. rush. bed, and have foreseen all my ways. 1
4For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things, 1
5the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me. 1
6The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t attain to it. 1
7Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from your presence? 1
8If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. 1
9If I should spread my wings to fly + 138:9 Alex. κατ᾿ ὄρθον, towards the dawn. straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain, 1
10for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me. 1
11When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my + 138:11 Comp. Heb. luxury. 1
12For darkness will not be darkness with you; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to you. 1
13For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb. 1
14I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows it well. 1
15My bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. 1
16Your 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 amongst them. 1
17But your friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened. 1
18I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you. 1
19Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you⌃ men of blood. 1
20For you will say concerning their thought, that they shall take your cities in vain. 1
21Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies? 1
22I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies. 1
23Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; 1
24and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.