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Psalm 139 Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)

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1 Al director musical. Salmo de David. Señor, tú me has examinado el corazón y me conoces muy bien.
1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
2 Sabes si me siento o me levantó. Cuando estoy lejos, conoces cada uno de mis pensamientos.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 Trazas la senda delante de mí, y me dices dónde debo descansar. Cada momento sabes dónde estoy.
3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Sabes lo que voy a decir antes que lo diga, Señor.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
5 Por delante y por detrás me rodeas, y colocas tu mano sobre mi cabeza.
5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
6 Conocimiento tan maravilloso está más allá de mi comprensión; tan grande es que no puedo entenderlo.
6 This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
7 ¡Jamás podré alejarme de tu Espíritu! ¡Jamás podré huir de su presencia!
7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
8 Si me voy al cielo, allí estás tú. Si desciendo al lugar de los muertos, allí estás.
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
9 Si cabalgo en los vientos matutinos y habito en los lejanos océanos,
9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 aun allí me guiará tu mano, tu fuerza me sostendrá.
10 even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
11 Puedo pedirle a las tinieblas que me oculten; y a la luz que me rodea que se haga noche.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
12 Pero aun en las tinieblas no puedo ocultarme de ti; para ti la noche es tan brillante como el día. Para ti son lo mismo las tinieblas que la luz.
12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
13 Tú hiciste todas las delicadas partes internas de mi cuerpo y las uniste en el vientre de mi madre.
13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 ¡Gracias por haberme hecho tan admirable! Es admirable pensar en ello. Maravillosa es la obra de tus manos, y eso lo sé muy bien.
14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
15 Tú me observaste cuando en lo más recóndito era yo formado.
15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Tus ojos vieron mi cuerpo en gestación: todo estaba ya escrito en tu libro; todos mis días se estaban diseñando, aunque no existía uno solo de ellos.
16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
17 ¡Cuán preciosos son los pensamientos que tienes de mí, oh Dios! ¡Son innumerables!
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
18 No puedo contarlos, superan en número a los granos de arena. Y cuando despierto en la mañana, tú todavía estás conmigo.
18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
19 Dios, si solamente destruyeras a los malvados. ¡Apártense de mi vida, ustedes, asesinos!
19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 Ellos blasfeman contra ti; tus enemigos toman tu nombre en vano.
20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Señor, ¿no debo odiar a quienes te odian? ¿No detesto a los que te rechazan?
21 Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
22 Sí, los odio, con un odio implacable, pues tus enemigos son mis enemigos.
22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
23 Examíname, Dios, y conoce mi corazón; pruébame y conoce mis pensamientos.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
24 Señálame lo que en mí te ofende, y guíame por la senda de la vida eterna.
24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
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

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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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).

How these were chosen

“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)