Psalms 138

¹Unto the end, a Psalm of David. Lord thou hast proved me, and hast known me:

²thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.

³Thou hast understood my cogitations far off: my path, and my cord thou hast searched out.

⁴And thou hast foreseen all my ways: because there is not a word in my tongue.

⁵Behold, o Lord, thou hast known all the last things, & them of old: thou hast formed me, and hast put thy hand upon me.

⁶Thy knowledge is become marvelous of me: it is made great, and I cannot reach to it.

⁷Whither shall I go from thy spirit? And whither shall I fly from thy face?

⁸If I shall ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

⁹If I shall take my wings early, and dwell in the extreme parts of the sea.

¹⁰Certes thither also shall thy hand conduct me: and thy right hand shall hold me.

¹¹And I said: Perhaps darkness shall tread over me: and the night is mine illumination in my delights.

¹²For darkness shall not be darkened from thee, and the night shall be lightened as the day: as the darkness thereof, so also the light thereof.

¹³Because thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast received me from my mother's womb.

¹⁴I will confess to thee, because thou art terribly magnified: thy works are marvelous, & my soul knoweth exceedingly.

¹⁵My bone is not hid from thee, which thou madest in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

¹⁶Mine imperfection thine eyes have seen, & in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, & no man in them.

¹⁷But to me thy friends, o God, are become honourable exceedingly: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.

¹⁸I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and I am yet with thee.

¹⁹If thou shalt kill sinners, o God: ye men of blood depart from me.

²⁰Because you say in thought: they shall receive thy cities in vain.

²¹Did not I hate them that hate thee, o Lord: and pined away because of thine enemies?

²²with perfect hatred did I hate them: they are become enemies to me.

²³Prove me, o God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

²⁴And see, if the way of iniquity be in me: and conduct me in the everlasting way.