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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 139 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/139.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/139-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Psalm 139</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/138.htm" title="Psalm 138">◄</a> Psalm 139 <a href="../psalms/140.htm" title="Psalm 140">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/139-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">You Have Searched Me and Known Me<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For not a word in my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thou didst press me behind and before, and thou wilt place thine hand upon me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Knowledge being wonderful from me; being high, I shall not be able for it.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Whither shall I go from thy spirit? and whither from thy face shall I flee?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Shall I lift up the wings of the dawn? shall I dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Also there thy hand will guide me, and thy right hand will hold me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Also darkness shall not darken from thee; and the night shall shine as the day: as the darkness, so the light.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And to me how were thy thoughts precious, O God! how were their heads strong!<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Surely thou wilt kill the unjust one, O God: and ye men of bloods, depart from me.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Shall I not hate those hating thee, O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against those rising up against thee.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I hated them with completeness of hatred: they were to me for enemies.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts:<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And see if the way of pain is in me, and guide me in the eternal way.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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