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Psalms

Chapter 139
{Verses 1-6: Omniscience of God}
1~~ To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David.
O Jehovah/God,
you have searched me,
and known me.

2~~ You have known me when I sit down
and when I get up {changes of attitude},
you understand my thoughts from eternity past.

3~~ You have computed my journey. . .
my lying down. . .
in fact you are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

4~~ Even before there is not a word on my tongue,
Jehovah/God, you have always known it.

5~~You have surrounded me with a wall of fire {behind and in front}, obviously You have laid Your hand on me {logistical grace}.

6~~Such knowledge {Omniscience of God}
is too wonderful for me.
It is too high, I cannot attain it.

7^~Where can I go/escape from Your {Holy} Spirit {ruwach}?
Where can I flee from Your presence?

8^~ If I ascend to heaven, You are there.
if I make my bed in Sheol {hades/hell},
You are there too.

9-10^~ If I take the wing with the dawn . . .
if I live in the remotest part of the sea . . . 10^~
even there, Your hand will lead me,
Your right hand will lay hold on me.

11-12^~ If I say, 'Surely the darkness
will bruise/conceal/cover me {undeserved suffering},
and the light around me will be night,12^~
from you . . . even the darkness is not dark.
And the night {undeserved suffering}
is as the day.
To you, darkness and light are both alike.

13~~It was You who possessed
my emotions {kilyah - idiom: literally the kidneys}
  {in fellowship God directs your emotions so you can share His
  happiness - Spiritual Grace}
You have interwoven/covered me
in my mother's womb {physiological grace}
  {everything needed to take in doctrine, God prepared even in your
  mother's womb}.

14^~I will give thanks/praise You!
For I am fearfully/awesomely, wondrously made.
Wonderful are Your works.
And, my soul knows it very well.

15-16^~ My bones are not hidden from You
when I was made in secret
and skillfully manufactured
in the depths of the earth 16^~
Your eyes have seen
my unformed substance {the embryo}.
Therefore, they were all written in Your book.
The days, which were ordained for me.
When as yet there was not
one of them.

17^~Oh 'El/God how precious also are
Your thoughts me!
How great their number!

18^~How vast is the sum of them {all God's doctrines}
if I should count them,
they would out number the grains of sand.
When I awaken, I am still with You.

19-20^^If You would only slay the wicked,
O 'Elowahh/Godhead
you murders, away from me! . . . 20^^
who invoke You for intrigue!
Your enemies who swear by You falsely.

21^^You know I hate those who hate You,
O Jehovah/God!
and loathe Your adversaries.

22^^ I feel a complete hatred
  {toward their thoughts and actions against God}.
I count them my enemies.

23^~Examine/test me, O El {God},
and know my 'right lobe'/heart.
Probe/test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24^~And see if there is any way of pain in me
  {undeserved suffering}
and lead me in the everlasting Way.