Psalms - Chapter 139 | English Standard Version

  • 1. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
  • 2. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
  • 3. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
  • 4. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
  • 5. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
  • 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
  • 7. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
  • 8. If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
  • 9. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
  • 10. even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
  • 11. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"
  • 12. even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
  • 13. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
  • 14. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
  • 15. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
  • 16. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
  • 17. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
  • 18. If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
  • 19. Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
  • 20. They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain!
  • 21. Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
  • 22. I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
  • 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
  • 24. And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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