Psalm 139:1
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Psalm 139:2
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 139:3
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
Psalm 139:4
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
Psalm 139:5
You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
Psalm 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Psalm 139:7
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
Psalm 139:9
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
Psalm 139:10
even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
Psalm 139:11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
Psalm 139:12
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:14
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
Psalm 139:15
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Psalm 139:16
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.
Psalm 139:17
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
Psalm 139:18
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
Psalm 139:19
O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
Psalm 139:20
who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Psalm 139:21
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
Psalm 139:22
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Psalm 139:24
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.