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World English Bible

Psalm 139 (WEBP)

[1] Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
[2] You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
[3] You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
[4] For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
[5] You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
[6] This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
[7] Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could 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 dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
[10] even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
[11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
[12] even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
[13] For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
[15] My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
[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.
[17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
[18] If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
[19] If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
[20] For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
[21] Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
[22] I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
[23] Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
[24] See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Psalm 139:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Psalm 139 (KJVS)

[1] O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
[2] Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
[3] Thou compassest my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
[4] For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
[5] Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thine hand upon me.
[6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
[7] Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
[8] If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
[9] If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
[10] Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy 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 hideth not from thee; But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
[13] For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
[14] I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
[15] My substance was not hid from thee, When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
[16] Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; And in thy book all my members were written, Which in continuance were fashioned, When as yet there was none of them.
[17] How precious also are thy 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 thee.
[19] Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
[20] For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
[21] Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
[22] I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine 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.

Psalm 139:3 Or, winnowest
Psalm 139:12a Heb. darkeneth not
Psalm 139:12b Heb. as is the darkness so is the light
Psalm 139:14 Heb. greatly
Psalm 139:15 Or, strength or body
Psalm 139:16a Heb. all of them
Psalm 139:16b Or, what days they should be fashioned
Psalm 139:24 Heb. way of pain, or grief

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Psalm 139 (BYZ)

[1] Εἰς () τὸ () τέλος· () ψαλμὸς () τῷ () Δαυιδ. () Κύριε, () ἐδοκίμασάς () με () καὶ () ἔγνως () με· ()
[2] σὺ () ἔγνως () τὴν () καθέδραν () μου () καὶ () τὴν () ἔγερσίν () μου, () σὺ () συνῆκας () τοὺς () διαλογισμούς () μου () ἀπὸ () μακρόθεν· ()
[3] τὴν () τρίβον () μου () καὶ () τὴν () σχοῖνόν μου () σὺ () ἐξιχνίασας καὶ () πάσας () τὰς () ὁδούς () μου () προεῖδες.
[4] Ὅτι () οὐκ () ἔστιν () λόγος () ἐν () γλώσσῃ () μου, ()
[5] ἰδού, () κύριε, () σὺ () ἔγνως () πάντα, () τὰ () ἔσχατα () καὶ () τὰ () ἀρχαῖα· () σὺ () ἔπλασάς () με () καὶ () ἔθηκας () ἐπ’ () ἐμὲ () τὴν () χεῖρά () σου. ()
[6] Ἐθαυμαστώθη ἡ () γνῶσίς () σου () ἐξ () ἐμοῦ· () ἐκραταιώθη, () οὐ () μὴ () δύνωμαι () πρὸς () αὐτήν. ()
[7] Ποῦ () πορευθῶ () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () πνεύματός () σου () καὶ () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () προσώπου () σου () ποῦ () φύγω; ()
[8] Ἐὰν () ἀναβῶ () εἰς () τὸν () οὐρανόν, () σὺ () εἶ () ἐκεῖ· () ἐὰν () καταβῶ () εἰς () τὸν () ᾅδην, () πάρει· ()
[9] ἐὰν () ἀναλάβοιμι () τὰς () πτέρυγάς () μου () κατ’ () ὄρθρον () καὶ () κατασκηνώσω () εἰς () τὰ () ἔσχατα () τῆς () θαλάσσης, ()
[10] καὶ () γὰρ () ἐκεῖ () ἡ () χείρ () σου () ὁδηγήσει () με, () καὶ () καθέξει () με () ἡ () δεξιά () σου. ()
[11] Καὶ () εἶπα () Ἄρα () σκότος () καταπατήσει () με, () καὶ () νὺξ () φωτισμὸς () ἐν () τῇ () τρυφῇ () μου· ()
[12] ὅτι () σκότος () οὐ () σκοτισθήσεται () ἀπὸ () σοῦ, () καὶ () νὺξ () ὡς () ἡμέρα () φωτισθήσεται· () ὡς () τὸ () σκότος () αὐτῆς, () οὕτως () καὶ () τὸ () φῶς () αὐτῆς. ()
[13] Ὅτι () σὺ () ἐκτήσω () τοὺς () νεφρούς () μου, () κύριε, () ἀντελάβου () μου () ἐκ () γαστρὸς () μητρός () μου. ()
[14] Ἐξομολογήσομαί () σοι, () ὅτι () φοβερῶς ἐθαυμαστώθην· θαυμάσια () τὰ () ἔργα () σου, () καὶ () ἡ () ψυχή () μου () γινώσκει () σφόδρα. ()
[15] Οὐκ () ἐκρύβη () τὸ () ὀστοῦν () μου () ἀπὸ () σοῦ, () ὃ () ἐποίησας () ἐν () κρυφῇ. () Καὶ () ἡ () ὑπόστασίς () μου () ἐν () τοῖς () κατωτάτοις () τῆς () γῆς· ()
[16] τὸ () ἀκατέργαστόν μου () εἴδοσαν () οἱ () ὀφθαλμοί () σου, () καὶ () ἐπὶ () τὸ () βιβλίον () σου () πάντες () γραφήσονται· () ἡμέρας () πλασθήσονται, () καὶ () οὐθεὶς () ἐν () αὐτοῖς. ()
[17] Ἐμοὶ () δὲ () λίαν () ἐτιμήθησαν () οἱ () φίλοι () σου, () ὁ () θεός, () λίαν () ἐκραταιώθησαν () αἱ () ἀρχαὶ () αὐτῶν· ()
[18] ἐξαριθμήσομαι αὐτούς, () καὶ () ὑπὲρ () ἄμμον () πληθυνθήσονται· () ἐξηγέρθην () καὶ () ἔτι () εἰμὶ () μετὰ () σοῦ. ()
[19] Ἐὰν () ἀποκτείνῃς () ἁμαρτωλούς, () ὁ () θεός, () ἄνδρες () αἱμάτων, () ἐκκλίνατε () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ. ()
[20] Ὅτι () ἐρεῖς () εἰς () διαλογισμόν· () λήμψονται () εἰς () ματαιότητα () τὰς () πόλεις () σου. ()
[21] Οὐχὶ () τοὺς () μισοῦντάς () σε, () κύριε, () ἐμίσησα () καὶ () ἐπὶ () τοῖς () ἐχθροῖς () σου () ἐξετηκόμην;
[22] Τέλειον () μῖσος ἐμίσουν () αὐτούς, () εἰς () ἐχθροὺς () ἐγένοντό () μοι. ()
[23] Δοκίμασόν () με, () ὁ () θεός, () καὶ () γνῶθι () τὴν () καρδίαν () μου, () ἔτασόν με () καὶ () γνῶθι () τὰς () τρίβους () μου ()
[24] καὶ () ἰδὲ () εἰ () ὁδὸς () ἀνομίας () ἐν () ἐμοί, () καὶ () ὁδήγησόν () με () ἐν () ὁδῷ () αἰωνίᾳ. ()

Psalm 139:1 Originally verse 138:1.
Psalm 139:2 Originally verse 138:2.
Psalm 139:3 Originally verse 138:3.
Psalm 139:4 Originally verse 138:4.
Psalm 139:5 Originally verse 138:5.
Psalm 139:6 Originally verse 138:6.
Psalm 139:7 Originally verse 138:7.
Psalm 139:8 Originally verse 138:8.
Psalm 139:9 Originally verse 138:9.
Psalm 139:10 Originally verse 138:10.
Psalm 139:11 Originally verse 138:11.
Psalm 139:12 Originally verse 138:12.
Psalm 139:13 Originally verse 138:13.
Psalm 139:14 Originally verse 138:14.
Psalm 139:15 Originally verse 138:15.
Psalm 139:16 Originally verse 138:16.
Psalm 139:17 Originally verse 138:17.
Psalm 139:18 Originally verse 138:18.
Psalm 139:19 Originally verse 138:19.
Psalm 139:20 Originally verse 138:20.
Psalm 139:21 Originally verse 138:21.
Psalm 139:22 Originally verse 138:22.
Psalm 139:23 Originally verse 138:23.
Psalm 139:24 Originally verse 138:24.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.