Biblia Platense (Straubinger) · Catholic Public Domain Version
Salmos 138
1Al maestro de coro. Salmo de David. Yahvé, Tú me penetras y me conoces. Unto the end. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have examined me, and you have known me.2Sabes cuando me siento y cuando me levanto; de lejos disciernes mis pensamientos. You have known my sitting down and my rising up again.3Si ando y si descanso Tú lo percibes, y todos mis caminos te son familiares. You have understood my thoughts from afar. My path and my fate, you have investigated.4No está todavía en mi lengua la palabra, y Tú, Yahvé, ya la sabes toda. And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue.5Tú me rodeas por detrás y por delante, y pones tu mano sobre mí. Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me.6Maravillosa sobremanera es para mí tal ciencia, demasiado sublime, superior a mi alcance. Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. It has been reinforced, and I am not able to prevail against it.7¿Adónde iré que me sustraiga a tu espíritu, adónde huiré de tu rostro? Where will I go from your Spirit? And where will I flee from your face?8Si subiere al cielo, allí estás Tú; si bajare al abismo, Tú estás presente. If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near.9Si tomare las alas de la aurora, y me posare en el extremo del mar, If I assume my feathers in early morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea,10también allí me conducirá tu mano, y me tendrá asido tu diestra. even there, your hand will lead me forth, and your right hand will hold me.11Si dijera: “Al menos las tinieblas me esconderán”, y a modo de luz me envolviese la noche. And I said: Perhaps darkness will overwhelm me, and the night will be my illumination, to my delight.12las mismas tinieblas no serían oscuras para Ti, y la noche resplandecería como el día, la oscuridad como la luz. But darkness will not be impenetrable to you, and night will illuminate like the day: for just as its darkness is, so also is its light.13Tú formaste mis entrañas; me tejiste en el seno de mi madre. For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother.14Te alabo porque te has mostrado maravilloso, porque tus obras son admirables; largamente conoces mi alma, I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.15y mi cuerpo no se te ocultaba, aunque lo plasmabas en la oscuridad, tejiéndolo bajo la tierra. My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, and my substance is in accord with the lower parts of the earth.16Tus ojos veían ya mis actos, y todos están escritos en tu libro; los días (míos) estaban determinados antes de que ninguno de ellos fuese. Your eyes saw my imperfection, and all this shall be written in your book. Days will be formed, and no one shall be in them.17Oh Dios ¡cuán difíciles de comprender tus designios! ¡Cuán ingente es su número! But to me, O God, your friends have been greatly honored. Their first ruler has been exceedingly strengthened.18Si quisiera contarlos, son más que las arenas; si llegara al fin, mi duración sería como la tuya. I will number them, and they will be more numerous than the sand. I rose up, and I am still with you.19¡Oh, si quitaras la vida, oh Dios, al impío, y se apartasen de mí los hombres perversos! O God, if only you would cut down sinners. You men of blood: depart from me.20Porque con disimulo se rebelan contra Ti; siendo tus enemigos, asumen tu Nombre en vano. For you say in thought: They will accept your cities in vain.21¿Acaso no debo odiar, Yahvé, a los que te odian, y aborrecer a los que contra Ti se enaltecen? Have I not hated those who hated you, Lord, and wasted away because of your enemies?22Los odio con odio total; se han hecho mis propios enemigos. I have hated them with a perfect hatred, and they have become enemies to me.23Escudríñame, oh Dios, y explora mi corazón, examíname y observa mi intimidad; Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Question me, and know my paths.24mira si ando por el falso camino, y condúceme por la senda antigua. And see if there might be in me the way of iniquity, and lead me in the way of eternity.