詩篇 139 -- God's Complete Knowledge and Care

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Psalm 139 is one of my favorite psalms in The Book of the Psalms. Whenever I read it, I feel comforted and encouraged . . . .

Psalm 139 / 詩篇 139

** Quoted from The Good News Translation (GNT), formerly called The Good News Bible or Today's English Version; with several Chinese subheadings taken from The Chinese Version Modern Punctuation (現代標點合和本).

［大衛的詩，交於伶長。］

¹  Lord, you have examined me and you know me.

²  You know everything I do;

     from far away you understand all my thoughts.

³  You see me, whether I am working or resting;

     you know all my actions.

⁴  Even before I speak,

     you already know what I will say.

⁵  You are all around me on every side;

     you protect me with your power.

⁶  Your knowledge of me is too deep;

     it is beyond my understanding.

［無所不在］

⁷  Where could I go to escape from you?

     Where could I get away from your presence?

⁸  If I went up to heaven, you would be there;

     if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.

⁹  If I flew away beyond the east

     or lived in the farthest place in the west,

¹⁰  you would be there to lead me,

     you would be there to help me.

¹¹  I could ask the darkness to hide me

     or the light around me to turn into night,

¹²  but even darkness is not dark for you,

     and the night is as bright as the day.

     Darkness and light are the same to you.

［造物奇妙］

¹³  You created every part of me;

      you put me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴  I praise you because you are to be feared;

      all you do is strange and wonderful.

      I know it with all my heart.

¹⁵  When my bones were being formed,

      carefully put together in my mother's womb,

when I was growing there in secret,

      you knew that I was there—

¹⁶   you saw me before I was born.

 The days allotted to me

     had all been recorded in your book,

     before any of them ever began.  

［恩惠無窮］

¹⁷  O God, how difficult I find your thoughts;

     how many of them there are!

¹⁸  If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand.

     When I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹  O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked!

     How I wish violent people would leave me alone!

²⁰  They say wicked things about you;

     they speak evil things against your name.

²¹  O Lord, how I hate those who hate you!

     How I despise those who rebel against you!

²²  I hate them with a total hatred;

    I regard them as my enemies.

²³  Examine me, O God, and know my mind;

     test me, and discover my thoughts.

²⁴  Find out if there is any evil in me

     and guide me in the everlasting way.