Psalm 139

¹To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.

²Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

³Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.

⁴For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

⁵Thou holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon me.

⁶Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.

⁷Whither shall I goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

⁸If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.

⁹Let mee take the winges of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea:

¹⁰Yet thither shall thine hand leade me, and thy right hand holde me.

¹¹If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.

¹²Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.

¹³For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

¹⁴I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.

¹⁵My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in the earth.