| 139:1 |
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. |
| 139:2 |
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. |
| 139:3 |
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. |
| 139:4 |
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. |
| 139:5 |
You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. |
| 139:6 |
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. |
| 139:7 |
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? |
| 139:8 |
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. |
| 139:9 |
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, |
| 139:10 |
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. |
| 139:11 |
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," |
| 139:12 |
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. |
| 139:13 |
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. |
| 139:14 |
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. |
| 139:15 |
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, |
| 139:16 |
your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. |
| 139:17 |
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! |
| 139:18 |
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. |
| 139:19 |
If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! |
| 139:20 |
They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. |
| 139:21 |
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? |
| 139:22 |
I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. |
| 139:23 |
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. |
| 139:24 |
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. |
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