Psalm 139

1. 1

   LORD, you have searched me out and known me; *
   you know my sitting down and my rising up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

2. 2

   You trace my journeys and my resting-places *
   and are acquainted with all my ways.

3. 3

   Indeed, there is not a word on my lips, *
   but you, O LORD, know it altogether.

4. 4

   You press upon me behind and before *
   and lay your hand upon me.

5. 5

   Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; *
   it is so high that I cannot attain to it.

6. 6

   Where can I go then from your Spirit? *
   where can I flee from your presence?

7. 7

   If I climb up to heaven, you are there; *
   if I make the grave my bed, you are there also.

8. 8

   If I take the wings of the morning *
   and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

9. 9

   Even there your hand will lead me *
   and your right hand hold me fast.

10. 10

    If I say, "Surely the darkness will cover me, *
    and the light around me turn to night,"

11. 11

    Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; *
    darkness and light to you are both alike.

12. 12

    For you yourself created my inmost parts; *
    you knit me together in my mother's womb.

13. 13

    I will thank you because I am marvelously made; *
    your works are wonderful, and I know it well.

14. 14

    My body was not hidden from you, *
    while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths of the earth.

15. 15

    Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb; all of them were written in your book; *
    they were fashioned day by day, when as yet there was none of them.

16. 16

    How deep I find your thoughts, O God! *
    how great is the sum of them!

17. 17

    If I were to count them, they would be more in number than the sand; *
    to count them all, my life span would need to be like yours.

18. 18

    Oh, that you would slay the wicked, O God! *
    You that thirst for blood, depart from me.

19. 19

    They speak despitefully against you; *
    your enemies take your Name in vain.

20. 20

    Do I not hate those, O LORD, who hate you? *
    and do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

21. 21

    I hate them with a perfect hatred; *
    they have become my own enemies.

22. 22

    Search me out, O God, and know my heart; *
    try me and know my restless thoughts.

23. 23

    Look well whether there be any wickedness in me *
    and lead me in the way that is everlasting.

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