Psalms 139:1-150:6 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.

KJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, you have searched me, and known me. ² You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off. ³ You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. ⁵ You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. ⁷ Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence? ⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there. ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ¹⁰ Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. ¹² Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you. ¹³ For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. ¹⁷ How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you. ¹⁹ Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men. ²⁰ For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain. ²¹ Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies. ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: ²⁴ And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ¹⁴⁰ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; ² Who imagine evil in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my paths. ⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah. ⁶ I said unto the LORD, you are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. ⁷ O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. ⁸ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. ⁹ As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. ¹⁰ Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. ¹¹ Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. ¹² I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. ¹³ Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence. ¹⁴¹ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] LORD, I cry unto you: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto you. ² Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. ³ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. ⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their delicacies. ⁵ Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil. ⁶ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. ⁷ Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth. ⁸ But my eyes are unto you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. ⁹ Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity. ¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I thus escape. ¹⁴² ¹ [A maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave.] I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. ² I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble. ³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. In the way in which I walked have they secretly laid a snare for me. ⁴ I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. ⁵ I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall surround me; for you shall deal bountifully with me. ¹⁴³ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. ² And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified. ³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. ⁴ Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. ⁵ I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I ponder on the work of your hands. ⁶ I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah. ⁷ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto you. ⁹ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee unto you to hide me. ¹⁰ Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. ¹¹ Revive me, O LORD, for your name's sake: for your righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. ¹² And in your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: ² My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me. ³ LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him! ⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away. ⁵ Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them. ⁷ Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of foreigners; ⁸ Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ⁹ I will sing a new song unto you, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto you. ¹⁰ It is he that gives salvation unto kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword. ¹¹ Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: ¹² That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace: ¹³ That our barns may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: ¹⁴ That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no outcry in our streets. ¹⁵ Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ [A Psalm of praise of David.] I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name forever and ever. ² Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name forever and ever. ³ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. ⁴ One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. ⁵ I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works. ⁶ And men shall speak of the might of your wondrous acts: and I will declare your greatness. ⁷ They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness. ⁸ The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. ⁹ The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ All your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power; ¹² To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. ¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. ¹⁴ The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that are bowed down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon you; and you give them their food in due season. ¹⁶ You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. ¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. ¹⁸ The LORD is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. ²⁰ The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. ² While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. ³ Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ⁴ His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. ⁵ Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: ⁶ Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein: who keeps truth forever: ⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners: ⁸ The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous: ⁹ The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. ¹⁰ The LORD shall reign forever, even your God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is fitting. ² The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He determines the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. ⁶ The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground. ⁷ Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: ⁸ Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains. ⁹ He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry. ¹⁰ He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. ¹² Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³ For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you. ¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat. ¹⁵ He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool: he scatters the frost like ashes. ¹⁷ He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? ¹⁸ He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise you the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. ² Praise him, all his angels: praise him, all his hosts. ³ Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light. ⁴ Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters that be above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has also established them forever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass. ⁷ Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea creatures, and all deeps: ⁸ Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word: ⁹ Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: ¹⁰ Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: ¹¹ Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: ¹² Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: ¹³ Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. ¹⁴ He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. ³ Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. ⁴ For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. ⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. ⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; ⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the people; ⁸ To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. ² Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. ³ Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the lute and harp. ⁴ Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and pipes. ⁵ Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the clashing cymbals. ⁶ Let every thing that has breath praise the LORD. Praise you the LORD.