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{{Verse|1}} O LORD, thou hast searched me out and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising, thou understandest my thoughts long before. | {{Verse|1}} O LORD, thou hast searched me out and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising, thou understandest my thoughts long before. | ||
{{Verse|2}} Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways. | {{Verse|2}} Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways. | ||
{{Verse|3}} For lo, there is not a word in my tongue : but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether. | {{Verse|3}} For lo, there is not a word in my tongue : but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether. | ||
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{{Verse|11}} Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day : the darkness and light to thee are both alike. | {{Verse|11}} Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day : the darkness and light to thee are both alike. | ||
{{Verse|12}} For my reins are thine : thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. | {{Verse|12}} For my reins are thine : thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. | ||
{{Verse|13}} | {{Verse|13}} I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. | ||
{{Verse|14}} My bones are not hid from thee : though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth. | {{Verse|14}} My bones are not hid from thee : though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth. | ||
{{Verse|15}} Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect : and in thy book were all my members written; | {{Verse|15}} Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect : and in thy book were all my members written; | ||
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General Information
Settings by composers
For settings of v.17, see Mihi autem nimis.
- Lowell Mason (vv. 23-4 KJV)
- James Nares (vv.23-4, BCP English, substituting "Try me, O God" for "Search me, O God")
Texts & translations
Biblia Sacra Vulgata (Psalm 138)
Latin text
1 pro victoria David canticum Domine investigasti me et cognovisti
2 tu cognovisti sessionem meam et surrectionem meam
3 intellexisti malum meum de longe semitam meam et accubitionem meam eventilasti
4 et omnes vias meas intellexisti quia non est eloquium in lingua mea
5 ecce Domine nosti omnia retrorsum et ante formasti me et posuisti super me manum tuam
6 super me est scientia et excelsior est non potero ad eam
7 quo ibo ab spiritu tuo et quo a facie tua fugiam
8 si ascendero in caelum ibi es tu si iacuero in inferno ades
9 si sumpsero pinnas diluculo habitavero in novissimo maris
10 etiam ibi manus tua deducet me et tenebit me dextera tua
11 si dixero forte tenebrae operient me nox quoque lux erit circa me
12 nec tenebrae habent tenebras apud te et nox quasi dies lucet similes sunt tenebrae et lux
13 quoniam tu possedisti renes meos orsusque es me in utero matris meae
14 confitebor tibi quoniam terribiliter magnificasti me mirabilia opera tua et anima mea novit nimis
15 non sunt operta ossa mea a te quibus factus sum in abscondito imaginatus sum in novissimis terrae
16 informem adhuc me viderunt oculi tui et in libro tuo omnes scribentur dies formatae sunt et non est una in eis
17 mihi autem quam honorabiles facti sunt amici tui Deus quam fortes pauperes eorum
18 dinumerabo eos et harena plures erunt evigilavi et adhuc sum tecum
19 si occideris Deus impium viri sanguinum declinate a me
20 qui contradicent tibi scelerate elati sunt frustra adversarii tui
21 nonne odientes te Domine odivi et contra adversarios tuos distabui
22 perfecto odio oderam illos inimici facti sunt mihi
23 scrutare me Deus et cognosce cor meum proba me et scito cogitationes meas
24 et vide si via idoli in me est et deduc me in via aeterna
Church of England 1662 Book of Common Prayer
English text
1 O LORD, thou hast searched me out and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising, thou understandest my thoughts long before.
2 Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways.
3 For lo, there is not a word in my tongue : but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether.
4 Thou hast fashioned me behind and before : and laid thine hand upon me.
5 Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me : I cannot attain unto it.
6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit : or whither shall I go then from thy presence?
7 If I climb up into heaven, thou art there : if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
8 If I take the wings of the morning : and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea;
9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me : and thy right hand shall hold me.
10 If I say, Peradventure the darkness shall cover me : then shall my night be turned to day.
11 Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day : the darkness and light to thee are both alike.
12 For my reins are thine : thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
13 I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.
14 My bones are not hid from thee : though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.
15 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect : and in thy book were all my members written;
16 Which day by day were fashioned : when as yet there was none of them.
17 How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God : O how great is the sum of them!
18 If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand : when I wake up I am present with thee.
19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O God : depart from me, ye blood-thirsty men.
20 For they speak unrighteously against thee : and thine enemies take thy Name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee : and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 Yea, I hate them right sore : even as though they were mine enemies.
23 Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart : prove me, and examine my thoughts.
24 Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me : and lead me in the way everlasting.
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition.
English text
1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
2 thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
5 Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
12 But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
15 My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
24 And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.