Psalms 139

1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, 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 to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest 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 is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

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

14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

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.

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.

17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

18 If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

19 O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

20 who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

4 For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

7 ¶ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].

9 [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.

15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.

17 ¶ How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

18 [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

20 For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.

21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

24 And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

1 A psalm of David, to be sung. O Lord, thou searchest me, and knowest me.

2 I sit, or rise up, thou knowest: thou understandest my thoughts afar off.

3 I walk, or lie down; thou art about me, and seest all my ways.

4 For, behold, there is not a word upon my tongue, which thou, LORD, knowest not all things.

5 Thou wilt do what I do before or after, and holdest thine hand over me.

6 Such knowledge is too strange and too high for me; I cannot understand it.

7 Whither shall I go before thy spirit, and whither shall I flee before thy face?

8 If I go to heaven, behold, thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there also.

9 If I took wings of the dawn, and abode by the uttermost sea,

10 Yet thine hand shall lead me there, and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, Let darkness cover me, the night also shall be light round about me;

12 For even darkness is not dark with thee, and the night shineth as the day: darkness is as the light.

13 For thou hast my kidneys in thy power: thou wast over me in my mother's womb.

14 I thank thee that I am marvellously made: marvellous are thy works, and my soul knoweth them.

15 My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the lower parts of the earth.

16 Thine eyes saw me when I was yet unprepared, and all the days were written in thy book, which were yet to come, and there was none of them.

17 But how precious in my sight, O God, are your thoughts! How great is their sum!

18 If I were to count them, they would be more than the sand. When I wake, I'll still be with you.

19 O God, that thou wouldest slay the wicked, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me!

20 For they speak blasphemy against thee, and thine enemies rise up without a cause.

21 I hate, O LORD, them that hate thee, and am turned away upon them, that they should set themselves against thee.

22 I hate them in a right earnestness; therefore they are an enemy unto me.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know how I mean;

24 And see if I be in an evil way, and guide me in an everlasting way.