Psalm 139
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1LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you. 2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways.3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me.5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it.6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence?7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
8If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are!8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me.10even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night," 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you. 12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
13It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb.13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it.14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet. 16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
17How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!17How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you.18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
19God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,19O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.20who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ?21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies.22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24See if there is any offensive tendency in me, and lead me in the eternal way.24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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