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Psalm 139 Darby Translation

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1890
  • Public domain

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1 To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
1 Al Músico principal: Salmo de David. OH Jehová, tú me has examinado y conocido.
2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
2 Tú has conocido mi sentarme y mi levantarme, has entendido desde lejos mis pensamientos.
3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;
3 Mi senda y mi acostarme has rodeado, y estás impuesto en todos mis caminos.
4 For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
4 Pues aun no está la palabra en mi lengua, [y] he aquí, oh Jehová, tú la sabes toda.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.
5 Detrás y delante me guarneciste, y sobre mí pusiste tu mano.
6 O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.
6 Más maravillosa es la ciencia que mi capacidad; alta es, no puedo comprenderla.
7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?
7 ¿Adónde me iré de tu espíritu? ¿y adónde huiré de tu presencia?
8 If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
8 Si subiere á los cielos, allí estás tú: y si en abismo hiciere mi estrado, he aquí allí tú estás.
9 [If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
9 Si tomare las alas del alba, y habitare en el extremo de la mar,
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
10 Aun allí me guiará tu mano, y me asirá tu diestra.
11 And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
11 Si dijere: Ciertamente las tinieblas me encubrirán; aun la noche resplandecerá tocante á mí.
12 Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.
12 Aun las tinieblas no encubren de ti, y la noche resplandece como el día: lo mismo [te son] las tinieblas que la luz.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
13 Porque tú poseiste mis riñones; cubrísteme en el vientre de mi madre.
14 I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
14 Te alabaré; porque formidables, maravillosas son tus obras: estoy maravillado, y mi alma lo conoce mucho.
15 My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
15 No fué encubierto de ti mi cuerpo, bien que en oculto fuí formado, [y] compaginado en lo más bajo de la tierra.
16 Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
16 Mi embrión vieron tus ojos, y en tu libro estaban escritas todas aquellas cosas que fueron luego formadas, sin [faltar] una de ellas.
17 But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
17 Así que ¡cuán preciosos me son, oh Dios, tus pensamientos! ¡cuán multiplicadas son sus cuentas!
18 [If] I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
18 Si los cuento, multiplícanse más que la arena: despierto, y aun estoy contigo.
19 Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God! And ye men of blood, depart from me.
19 De cierto, oh Dios, matarás al impío; apartaos pues de mí, hombres sanguinarios.
20 For they speak of thee wickedly, they take [thy name] in vain, thine enemies.
20 Porque blasfemias dicen ellos contra ti: tus enemigos toman en vano [tu nombre].
21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
21 ¿No tengo en odio, oh Jehová, á los que te aborrecen, y me conmuevo contra tus enemigos?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.
22 Aborrézcolos con perfecto odio; téngolos por enemigos.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
23 Examíname, oh Dios, y conoce mi corazón: pruébame y reconoce mis pensamientos:
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
24 Y ve si hay en mí camino de perversidad, y guíame en el camino eterno.
Cross references (24)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Hebrews 4:13; Jeremiah 12:3; Jeremiah 17:9–10; Psalm 44:21; Psalm 17:3
  2. 2 Matthew 9:4; 2 Kings 19:27; Isaiah 37:28; Psalm 94:11; Luke 9:47
  3. 3 Jeremiah 23:24; Job 31:4; Proverbs 5:20–21; Genesis 28:10–17; 2 Samuel 11:27
  4. 4 Hebrews 4:12–13; Psalm 19:14; Psalm 50:19–21; Matthew 12:35–37; Job 42:3
  5. 5 Psalm 34:7; Deuteronomy 33:27; Revelation 1:17; Job 23:8–9; Exodus 24:11
  6. 6 Romans 11:33; Job 42:3; Job 11:7–9; Job 26:14; Psalm 40:5
  7. 7 Jeremiah 23:23–24; Jonah 1:3; Jonah 1:10
  8. 8 Amos 9:2–4; Job 34:21–22; Jonah 2:2; Obadiah 4; Proverbs 15:11
  9. 9 Psalm 19:6; Psalm 74:16–17; Malachi 4:2
  10. 10 Psalm 23:3; Isaiah 41:13; Psalm 73:23; Psalm 63:8; Psalm 143:9–10
  11. 11 Job 12:22; Jeremiah 23:24; Psalm 94:7; Psalm 10:11–13; Job 22:12–14
  12. 12 Daniel 2:22; Job 34:22; Exodus 20:21; Hebrews 4:13; Job 26:6
  13. 13 Jeremiah 1:5; Psalm 119:73; Isaiah 44:2; Job 31:15; Job 10:9–12
  14. 14 Genesis 1:26–27; Psalm 111:2; Psalm 104:24; Psalm 92:4–5; Psalm 40:5
  15. 15 Ecclesiastes 11:5; Psalm 139:13; Job 10:8–11; Psalm 63:9
  16. 16 Psalm 56:8; Malachi 3:16; Revelation 20:12
  17. 17 Psalm 40:5; Jeremiah 29:11; Isaiah 55:8–9; Psalm 92:5; Psalm 36:7
  18. 18 Psalm 3:5; Psalm 139:3; Psalm 40:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; Psalm 63:6–7
  19. 19 Psalm 5:6; Psalm 119:115; Isaiah 11:4; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 6:8
  20. 20 Jude 15; Exodus 20:7; Psalm 74:18; Psalm 2:1–3; Psalm 73:8–9
  21. 21 Psalm 119:158; Psalm 31:6; Revelation 2:2; 2 Chronicles 19:2; Psalm 26:5
  22. 22 Luke 14:26; Psalm 101:3–8
  23. 23 Psalm 26:2; Job 31:6; 1 Peter 1:7; Proverbs 17:3; Deuteronomy 8:2
  24. 24 Psalm 143:10; Jeremiah 17:9–10; Psalm 25:8–9; Psalm 119:32; Psalm 16:11

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXXXVIII)

    The title of this Psalm is brief and simple, and need not detain us; since we know whose resemblance David wore, and since in him we recognise ourselves also, for we too are members of that Body. The whole title is, "To David himself." Let us see then, what is to David himself.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 139:7–10 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XXVI–XXXIII)

    If I ascend into heaven, Thou art there; if I go away even to the uttermost parts of the earth, there is Thy right hand; if I make my bed in the abyss, there is Thy Spirit." Whither, then, shall any one go, or where shall he escape from Him who comprehends all things?

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 139:7 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book V)

    For whither fled they when they fled from Thy presence? Or where dost Thou not find them?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 139:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture VIII)

    … have dared to circumscribe God's providence by the clouds and the heaven, and to alienate from God the things on earth; having forgotten the Psalm which says, If I go up into heaven, Thou art there, if I go down into hell, Thou art present.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  5. Quotes verse 139:14 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily IX)

    Yet the beholding of heaven and earth does not make us know God better than the attentive study of our being does; I am, says the Prophet, fearfully and wonderfully made; that is to say, in observing myself I have known Thy infinite wisdom.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)