Domine, probasti. Psal. cxxxix.
O Lord, thou hast me try'd and known,
my sitting thou dost know
[verse 2] And r••••ing eke, my thoughts afar
thou understand'st also.
[verse 3] My paths, yea, and my lying down
thou compassest always:
And by familiar custom art
acquainted with my ways.
[verse 4] No word is in my tongue, O Lord,
but known it is to thee:
[verse 5] Thou me behinde hold'st and before,
thou lay'st thine hand on me.
[verse 6] Too wonderful above my reach,
Lord, is thy cunning skill:
It is so high that I the same
cannot attain untill.
[verse 7] From sight of thy all-seeing Spirit,
Lord, whither shall I go?
Or whither shall I flee away
thy presence to scape fro?
[verse 8] To heaven if I mount aloft,
lo, thou art present there:
In hell if I lie down below,
even there thou dost appear.
[verse 9] Yea, let me take the morning wings,
and let me go and bide
Even there where are the farthest parts,
where flowing sea doth slide:
[verse 10] Yea, even thither also shall
thy reaching hand me guide;
And thy right hand shall hold me fast,
and make me to abide.
[verse 11] Yea, if I say, The darkness shall
yet shroud me from thy sight:
Lo, even also the darkest night
about me shall be light.
[verse 12] Yea, darkness hideth not from thee,
but night doth shine as day:
To thee the darkness and the light
are both alike alway.
The second part.
[verse 13] For thou possessed hast my reins,
and thou hast covered me,
When I within my mothers womb
enclosed was by thee.
[verse 14] Thee will I praise, made fearfully
and wondrously I am:
Thy works are marvellous, right well
my soul doth know the same.
[verse 15] My bones they are not hid from thee,
although in secret place
I have been made, and in the earth
beneath I shaped was.
[verse 16] When I was formless, then thine eye
saw me: for in thy book
Were written all, nought was before
that after fashion took.
[verse 17] The thoughts therefore of thee, O God,
how dear are they to me!
And of them all how passing great
the endless number be!
[verse 18] If I should count them, lo, their sum
more then the land I see:
And whensoever I awake
yet am I still with thee.
[verse 19] The wicked and the bloudy men
O that thou wouldest slay!
Even those, O God, to whom, Depart,
depart from me, I say.
[verse 20] Even those of thee, O Lord my God,
that speak full wickedly:
Those that are lifted up in vain,
being enemies to thee.
[verse 21] Hate I not them that hate thee, Lord,
and that in earnest wise?
Contend I not against them all
against thee that arise?
[verse 22] I hate them with unfeigned hate,
even as my utter foes.
[verse 23] Try me, O God, and know my heart,
my thoughts prove and disclose.
[verse 24] Consider, Lord, if wickedness
in me there any be:
And in thy way, O God my Guide,
forever lead thou me.