Domine probasti. Ps.139.N.

The first part

The second part

O Lord, thou hast me tried and known,
my sitting thou dost know:

2 And rising eke, my thoughts afar,
thou understandst also.

3 My paths, yea, and my lying down,
thou ‘compassest always:
And by familiar custom art
acquainted with my ways.

4 No word is in my tongue O Lord,
but known it is to thee:
Thou me behind hold’st, and before,
thou layest thy hands on me.

5 Too wonderful above my reach
Lord is thy cunning skill:
It is so high, that I the same
cannot attain until.

6 From sight of thy all-seeing spirit,
Lord, whither shall I go?
Or whither shall I flee away,
thy presence to ‘scape fro?

7 To heaven if I mount aloft,
lo thou art present there:
In hell if I lie down below,
even there thou dost appear.

8 Yea, let me take the morning wings,
and let me go and hide
Even there where are the farthest parts,
where flowing seas do slide.

9 Yea, even thither also shall
thy reaching hand me guide:
And thy right hand shall hold me fast,
and make me to abide.

10 Yea if I say the darkness shall
yet shroud me from thy sight:
Lo even also the darkest night,
above me shall be light.

11 Yea the darkness hideth not from thee,
but night doth shine as day:
To thee darkness and the light,
are both alike alway.

13 For thou possessed hast my reins,
and thou hast covered me:
When I within my mother’s womb,
enclosed was by thee:

14 Thee will I praise, made fearfully
and wondrously I am:
Thy works are marvelous right well
my soul doth know the same.

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.

16 When I was formless, then thine eye,
saw me, for in thy book:
Were written all, naught was before,
that after fashion took.

17 The thoughts therefore of thee (O God)
how dear are they to me?
And of them all now passing great,
the endless number be.

18 If I should count them, lo their sum,
more than the sand I see:
And whensoever I awake,
yet am I still with thee.

19 The wicked and the bloody men,
oh that thou wouldest slay:
Even those O God, to whom depart,
depart from me I say.

20 Even those of thee, O Lord my God,
that speak full wickedly:
Those that are lifted up in vain,
being enemies to thee.

21 Hate I not them that hate thee Lord,
and that in earnest wise?
Contend I not against them all,
against thee that arise?

22 I hate them with unfained hate,
even as my very foes:

23 Try me O God, and know my heart,
my thoughts prove and disclose.

24 Consider Lord if wickedness
in me there any be:
And in thy way, O God my guide,
forever lead thou me.