Psalm 139
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
¹ 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;1 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,2 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.3
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.