Chapter 139
Psalms
Verse 1O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
Verse 2You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar.Verse 3You search out my path and my lying downand are acquainted with all my ways.Verse 4Even before a word is on my tongue,behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.Verse 5You hem me in, behind and before,and lay your hand upon me.Verse 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;it is high; I cannot attain it.Verse 7Where shall I go from your Spirit?Or where shall I flee from your presence?Verse 8If I ascend to heaven, you are there!If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!Verse 9If I take the wings of the morningand dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,Verse 10even there your hand shall lead me,and your right hand shall hold me.Verse 11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,and the light about me be night,”Verse 12even the darkness is not dark to you;the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with you.Verse 13For you formed my inward parts;you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.Verse 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well.Verse 15My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the depths of the earth.Verse 16Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them,the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them.Verse 17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!How vast is the sum of them!Verse 18If I would count them, they are more than the sand.I awake, and I am still with you.Verse 19Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!O men of blood, depart from me!Verse 20They speak against you with malicious intent;your enemies take your name in vain.Verse 21Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?Verse 22I hate them with complete hatred;I count them my enemies.Verse 23Search me, O God, and know my heart!Try me and know my thoughts!Verse 24And see if there be any grievous way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting!
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