Psalm 139
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1LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.1O 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 down and when I rise up; you discern 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 and are acquainted with 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, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me.5You hem me in, behind and before, and lay 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; it is high; I cannot attain it.
7Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence?7Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall 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 heaven, 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 take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me.10even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night," 11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
12even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you. 12even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
13It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb.13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted 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. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it 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 being made in secret, intricately woven 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 substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
17How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you.18If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and 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,19Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
20who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.20They speak against you with malicious intent; 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 do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies.22I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
23Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.23Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24See if there is any offensive tendency in me, and lead me in the eternal way.24And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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Psalm 138
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