Psalms 139
1 O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and mine rising up, you understand my thought far off.
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb.
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the low parts of the earth.
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 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.
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.
17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, all of you bloody men.
O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
