Psalm 139
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1For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.1O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
2You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
4Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.
5You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
7Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
8If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
11If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—
12even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.12but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
13For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15My 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.15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.16You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
18Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand-- when I awake, I am still with you.18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
19If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
20They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.
21Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
22I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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