Psalm 139
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1O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.16Thine 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.
17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com.
Psalm 138
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