PSALM 139
1 O
LORD , you have
searched me
and you know me.
2 You
know when I sit
and when I rise;
you perceive my
thoughts from
afar.
3 You
discern my going
out and my lying
down;
you are familiar
with all my
ways.
4
Before a word is
on my tongue
you know it
completely, O
LORD .
5 You
hem me in-behind
and before;
you have laid
your hand upon
me.
6
Such knowledge
is too wonderful
for me,
too lofty for me
to attain.
7
Where can I go
from your
Spirit?
Where can I flee
from your
presence?
8 If
I go up to the
heavens, you are
there;
if I make my bed
in the depths,
you are there.
9 If
I rise on the
wings of the
dawn,
if I settle on
the far side of
the sea,
10
even there your
hand will guide
me,
your right hand
will hold me
fast.
11 If
I say, "Surely
the darkness
will hide me
and the light
become night
around me,"
12
even the
darkness will
not be dark to
you;
the night will
shine like the
day,
for darkness is
as light to you.
13
For you created
my inmost being;
you knit me
together in my
mother's womb.
14 I
praise you
because I am
fearfully and
wonderfully
made;
your works are
wonderful,
I know that full
well.
15 My
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,
16
your eyes saw my
unformed body.
All the days
ordained for me
were written in
your book
before one of
them came to be.
17
How precious to
me are your
thoughts, O God!
How vast is the
sum of them!
18
Were I to count
them,
they would
outnumber the
grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with
you.
19 If
only you would
slay the wicked,
O God!
Away from me,
you bloodthirsty
men!
20
They speak of
you with evil
intent;
your adversaries
misuse your
name.
21 Do
I not hate those
who hate you, O
LORD ,
and abhor those
who rise up
against you?
22 I
have nothing but
hatred for them;
I count them my
enemies.
23
Search me, O
God, and know my
heart;
test me and know
my anxious
thoughts.
24
See if there is
any offensive
way in me,
and lead me in
the way
everlasting.
