The Psalms

chapter 139


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verse #1

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.


verse #2

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.


verse #3

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.


verse #4

For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.


verse #5

You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.


verse #6

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.


verse #7

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?


verse #8

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!


verse #9

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,


verse #10

even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.


verse #11

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”


verse #12

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.


verse #13

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.


verse #14

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.


verse #15

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.


verse #16

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.


verse #17

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!


verse #18

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.


verse #19

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!


verse #20

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.


verse #21

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?


verse #22

I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.


verse #23

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.


verse #24

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

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