The Psalms, starting at chapter 139
Psalm 139
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
{139:1} LORD, you have searched me,
and you know me.
{139:2} You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
{139:3} You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
{139:4} For there is not a word on my tongue,
but, behold, LORD, you know it altogether.
{139:5} You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
{139:6} This knowledge is beyond me.
It's lofty.
I can't attain it.
{139:7} Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
{139:8} If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
{139:9} If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
{139:10} Even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
{139:11} If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me;
the light around me will be night;"
{139:12} even the darkness doesn't hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
{139:13} For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
{139:14} I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
{139:15} My frame wasn't hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
{139:16} Your eyes saw my body.
In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
{139:17} How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
{139:18} If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
{139:19} If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
{139:20} For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
{139:21} LORD, don't I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
{139:22} I hate them with perfect hatred.
They have become my enemies.
{139:23} Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
{139:24} See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.
Psalm 140
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
{140:1} Deliver me, LORD, from the evil man.
Preserve me from the violent man;
{140:2} those who devise mischief in their hearts.
They continually gather themselves together for war.
{140:3} They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
Viper's poison is under their lips.
Selah.
{140:4} LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked.
Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
{140:5} The proud have hidden a snare for me,
they have spread the cords of a net by the path.
They have set traps for me.
Selah.
{140:6} I said to the LORD, "You are my God."
Listen to the cry of my petitions, LORD.
{140:7} LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
{140:8} LORD, don't grant the desires of the wicked.
Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.
Selah.
{140:9} As for the head of those who surround me,
let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
{140:10} Let burning coals fall on them.
Let them be thrown into the fire,
into miry pits, from where they never rise.
{140:11} An evil speaker won't be established in the earth.
Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
{140:12} I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and justice for the needy.
{140:13} Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.
The upright will dwell in your presence.
Psalm 141
A Psalm by David.
{141:1} LORD, I have called on you.
Come to me quickly!
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
{141:2} Let my prayer be set before you like incense;
the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
{141:3} Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth.
Keep the door of my lips.
{141:4} Don't incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.
Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
{141:5} Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;
let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;
don't let my head refuse it;
Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
{141:6} Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock.
They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
{141:7} "As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
{141:8} For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord.
In you, I take refuge.
Don't leave my soul destitute.
{141:9} Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
{141:10} Let the wicked fall together into their own nets,
while I pass by.
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