Psalms 140

DOUAI-RHEIMS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:	1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
2 thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.	2 Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.	3 O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.	4 Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
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.	5 The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.	6 Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?	7 as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell.
8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.	8 For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:	9 Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.	10 The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.
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.