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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 Brenton's Septuagint 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="../">Brenton</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">Brenton's Septuagint 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><font color=blue>(138:1)</font> For the end, a Psalm of David.O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:2)</font> Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:3)</font> Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:4)</font> For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:5)</font> the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:6)</font> The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot <i>attain</i> to it.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:7)</font> Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:8)</font> If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:9)</font> If I should spread my wings <i>to fly</i> straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, <i>it would be vain</i>,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:10)</font> for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:11)</font> When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night <i>was</i> light in my luxury.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:12)</font> For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light <i>be to thee</i>.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:13)</font> For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother's womb.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:14)</font> I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows <i>it</i> well.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:15)</font> My bones, which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:16)</font> Thine eyes saw my unwrought <i>substance</i>, and all <i>men</i> shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though <i>there should for a time</i> be no one among them.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:17)</font> But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:18)</font> I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:19)</font> Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:20)</font> For thou wilt say concerning <i>their</i> thought, <i>that</i> they shall take thy cities in vain.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:21)</font> Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies?<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:22)</font> I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:23)</font> Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(138:24)</font> and see if <i>there is any</i> way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/138.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 138"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 138" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/140.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 140"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 140" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>