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