Psalm 139

¹LORD, you have searched me,

and you know me.

²You know my sitting down and my rising up.

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

³You search out my path and my lying down,

and are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴For there is not a word on my tongue,

but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.

⁵You hem me in behind and before.

You laid your hand on me.

⁶This knowledge is beyond me.

It’s lofty.

I can’t attain it.

⁷Where could I go from your Spirit?

Or where could I flee from your presence?

⁸If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.

If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

⁹If I take the wings of the dawn,

and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰even there your hand will lead me,

and your right hand will hold me.

¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.

The light around me will be night,”

¹²even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,

but the night shines as the day.

The darkness is like light to you.

¹³For you formed my inmost being.

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴I will give thanks to you,

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Your works are wonderful.

My soul knows that very well.

¹⁵My frame wasn’t hidden from you,

when I was made in secret,

woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶Your 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.

¹⁷How precious to me are your thoughts, God!

How vast is their sum!

¹⁸If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.

When I wake up, I am still with you.

¹⁹If only you, God, would kill the wicked.

Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

²⁰For they speak against you wickedly.

Your enemies take your name in vain.

²¹LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you?

Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

²²I hate them with perfect hatred.

They have become my enemies.

²³Search me, God, and know my heart.

Try me, and know my thoughts.

²⁴See if there is any wicked way in me,

and lead me in the everlasting way.