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Psalm 139

¹O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
²Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
³Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
⁴For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
⁵Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
⁷Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
⁸If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
⁹If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
¹⁰Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
¹¹If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
¹²Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
¹³For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
¹⁵My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
¹⁷How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
¹⁸If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
¹⁹Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
²⁰For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
²¹Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
²²I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

10She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,
²And gave him power to rule all things.
³But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.
⁴For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.
¹⁵She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.
¹⁶She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;
¹⁷Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;
¹⁸Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water:
¹⁹But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.
²⁰Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them.
²¹For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

2Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
²I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
³And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
⁴Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
⁵Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
⁶But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
⁷He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
⁸And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
⁹I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
¹⁰Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
¹¹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.