For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;
Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou {Or, winnowest}searchest out my path and my lying down,
And art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue,
But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before,
And laid thy hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me,
And thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall {Or, cover}overwhelm me,
{Or, Then the night shall be light about me}And the light about me shall be night;
Even the darkness hideth not from thee,
But the night shineth as the day:
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
For thou didst form my {Hebrew: reins.}inward parts:
Thou didst {Or, knit me together}cover me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Wonderful are thy works;
And that my soul knoweth right well.
My frame was not hidden from thee,
When I was made in secret,
And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance;
And in thy book they were all written,
Even the days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
When I awake, I am still with thee.
{Or, Oh that thou wouldest slay}Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:
Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
For they {Or, utter thy name (Hebrew: thee) Or, as otherwise read, rebel against thee}speak against thee wickedly,
And thine enemies {Or, lift themselves up against thee for vanity}take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee?
And {Or, do not I loathe}am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred:
They are become mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart:
Try me, and know my thoughts;
And see if there be any {Or, way of pain}wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.
Querverweise zu Psalm 139,2 Ps 139,2
Thou numberest my wanderings:Put thou my tears into thy bottle;Are they not in thy { Or, record}book?
Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, {Or, For}That they are {Hebrew: a breath.}vanity.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, {Or, Thou God seest me}Thou art {Hebrew: El roi, that is, God of seeing.}a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me?
And Jesus {Many ancient authorities read seeing.}knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
and thou shalt say, I will go up to {Or, an open country}the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;
And one of his servants said, Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
But when Jesus saw the {Or, questioning}reasoning of their heart, he took a little child, and set him by his side,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring thee against them?
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men,
The eyes of Jehovah are in every place,Keeping watch upon the evil and the good.
and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning {Or, a man; for…the man.}man; for he himself knew what was in man.
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.
For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.