Psalms 139
1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.
3 You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, see, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand on me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.
7 Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. (Sheol h7585)
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
13 For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
19 O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
20 who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
