Psalm Chapter 139 Back NextPsalm 139 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by
David.
{139:1} Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
{139:2} You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
{139:3} You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
{139:4} For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
{139:5} You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
{139:6} This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
{139:7} Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
{139:8} If I ascend up into
heaven, you are there. If I make my
bed in
Sheol, behold, you are there!
{139:9} If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
{139:10} Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
{139:11} If I say, "Surely the
darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night";
{139:12} even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
{139:13} For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
{139:14} I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
{139:15} My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the
earth.
{139:16} Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
{139:17} How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
{139:18} If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
{139:19} If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
{139:20} For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
{139:21} Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
{139:22} I hate them with perfect
hatred. They have become my enemies.
{139:23} Search me, God, and know my
heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
{139:24} See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
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