Psalms 139:2-24 ▼

2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You discern my thought from afar.

3 You have fanned My wandering and my lying down, and You are aware of all my ways.

4 For there is not a word on my tongue—behold, O YHWH, You have known it all.

5 Behind and before, You hem me in, and You have laid Your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is wonderful for me; it is high, I am not able to atttain it.

7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your face?

8 If I ascend to the heavens, there You are; and if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You!

9 If I lift up the wings of the morning, if I settle in the furthest part of the sea,

10 even there Your hand will guide me, and Your right hand will hold me fast.

11 And I said, “Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light become night around me”—

12 even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night shines like the day—as the darkness, so is the light.

13 For You have possessed my kidneys; You covered me in the womb of my mother.

14 I give You praise upon that fearfully I have been distinguished; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.

15 My bone was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body, and in Your book all of them were written—the days fashioned for me, and not one was yet among them!

17 And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is their sum!

18 If I could count them, they would number more than the sand! I awaken, and I am still with You.

19 If only You would slay, O God, the wicked; and the men of blood, may they turn aside from me—

20 who speak against You for wickedness; Your enemies are lifted up to vanity.

21 Do I not hate those hating you, O YHWH, and I loathe those standing against You?

22 I have hated them with perfect hatred; they have become as enemies to me!

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me, and know my thoughts.

24 And see if a way of wickedness is in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.