---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 139
verse_count: 24
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 139, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 139

*God's power and knowledge everywhere present. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of*

**1** David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
**2** Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
**3** Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
**4** For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, tou knowest it altogether.
**5** Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
**6** Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
**7** Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
**8** If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
**9** If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
**10** Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
**11** If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
**12** Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
**13** For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
**14** I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
**15** My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
**16** Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet I knew none of them.
**17** How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
**18** If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with thee.
**19** Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
**20** For they speak against thee wickedly, 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** I hate them with perfect hatred; 1 count them mine enemies.
**23** Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts;
**24** And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.