Psalms 138 — LXXSB

(139) For the end, a Psalm of David.⁺

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