Liber Psalmorum, 139
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0. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1. Magistro chori. David. PSALMUS. Domine, scrutatus es et cognovisti me,
1. O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me!
2. tu cognovisti sessionem meam et resurrectionem meam. Intellexisti cogitationes meas de longe,
2. Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar.
3. semitam meam et accubitum meum investigasti. Et omnes vias meas perspexisti,
3. Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4. quia nondum est sermo in lingua mea, et ecce, Domine, tu novisti omnia.
4. Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
5. A tergo et a fronte coartasti me et posuisti super me manum tuam.
5. Thou dost beset me behind and before, and layest thy hand upon me.
6. Mirabilis nimis facta est scientia tua super me, sublimis, et non attingam eam.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.
7. Quo ibo a spiritu tuo et quo a facie tua fugiam?
7. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8. Si ascendero in caelum, tu illic es; si descendero in infernum, ades.
8. If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!
9. Si sumpsero pennas aurorae et habitavero in extremis maris,
9. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10. etiam illuc manus tua deducet me, et tenebit me dextera tua.
10. even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11. Si dixero: “Forsitan tenebrae compriment me, et nox illuminatio erit circa me”,
11. If I say, "Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,"
12. etiam tenebrae non obscurabuntur a te, et nox sicut dies illuminabitur C sicut tenebrae eius ita et lumen eius -.
12. even the darkness is not dark to thee, the night is bright as the day; for darkness is as light with thee.
13. Quia tu formasti renes meos, contexuisti me in utero matris meae.
13. For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.
14. Confitebor tibi, quia mirabiliter plasmatus sum; mirabilia opera tua, et anima mea cognoscit nimis.
14. I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;
15. Non sunt abscondita ossa mea a te, cum factus sum in occulto, contextus in inferioribus terrae.
15. my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
16. Imperfectum adhuc me viderunt oculi tui, et in libro tuo scripti erant omnes dies: ficti erant, et nondum erat unus ex eis.
16. Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
17. Mihi autem nimis pretiosae cogitationes tuae, Deus; nimis gravis summa earum.
17. How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18. Si dinumerabo eas, super arenam multiplicabuntur; si ad finem pervenerim, adhuc sum tecum.
18. If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
19. Utinam occidas, Deus, peccatores; viri sanguinum, declinate a me.
19. O that thou wouldst slay the wicked, O God, and that men of blood would depart from me,
20. Qui loquuntur contra te maligne: exaltantur in vanum contra te.
20. men who maliciously defy thee, who lift themselves up against thee for evil!
21. Nonne, qui oderunt te, Domine, oderam et insurgentes in te abhorrebam?
21. Do I not hate them that hate thee, O LORD? And do I not loathe them that rise up against thee?
22. Perfecto odio oderam illos, et inimici facti sunt mihi.
22. I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
23. Scrutare me, Deus, et scito cor meum; proba me et cognosce semitas meas
23. Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24. et vide, si via vanitatis in me est, et deduc me in via aeterna.
24. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
