Psalm 139 v. 1-16 (Jackson CM)

1 O Lord, thou hast me searched and known.2 Thou know’st my sitting down,And rising up; yea, all my thoughtsafar to thee are known.3 My footsteps, and my lying down,thou compassest always;Thou also most entirely artacquaint with all my ways.4 For in my tongue, before I speak,not any word can be,But altogether, lo, O Lord,it is well known to thee.5 Behind, before, thou hast beset,and laid on me thine hand.6 Such knowledge is too strange for me,too high to understand.7 From thy Sp’rit whither shall I go?or from thy presence fly?8 Ascend I heav’n, lo, thou art there;there, if in hell I lie.9 Take I the morning wings, and dwellin utmost parts of sea;10 Ev’n there, Lord, shall thy hand me lead,thy right hand hold shall me.11 If I do say that darkness shallme cover from thy sight,Then surely shall the very nightabout me be as light.12 Yea, darkness hideth not from thee,but night doth shine as day:To thee the darkness and the lightare both alike alway.13 For thou possessed hast my reins,and thou hast covered me,When I within my mother’s wombenclosed was by thee.14 Thee will I praise; for fearfullyand strangely made I am;Thy works are marv’llous, and right wellmy soul doth know the same.15 My substance was not hid from thee,when as in secret IWas made; and in earth’s lowest partswas wrought most curiously.16 Thine eyes my substance did behold,yet being unperfect;And in the volume of thy bookmy members all were writ;Which after in continuancewere fashioned ev’ry one,When as they yet all shapeless were,and of them there was none.