# Psalm 139
## You Have Searched Me and Known Me
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
- 1 O LORD, You have searched me
- and known me.
- 2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
- You understand my thoughts from afar.
- 3 You search out my path and my lying down;
- You are aware of all my ways.
- 4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
- You know all about it, O LORD.
- 5 You hem me in behind and before;
- You have laid Your hand upon me.
- 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
- too lofty for me to attain.
- 7 Where can I go to escape Your Spirit?
- Where can I flee from Your presence?
- 8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there;
- if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
- 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
- if I settle by the farthest sea,
- 10 even there Your hand will guide me;
- Your right hand will hold me fast.
- 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
- and the light become night around me”—
- 12 even the darkness is not dark to You,
- but the night shines like the day,
- for darkness is as light to You.
- 13 For You formed my inmost being; {Hebrew "my kidneys" }
- You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
- 14 I praise You,
- for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
- Marvelous are Your works,
- and I know this very well.
- 15 My frame was not hidden from You
- when I was made in secret,
- when I was woven together
- in the depths of the earth.
- 16 [[H5869|Your eyes]] [[H7200|saw]] [[H1564|my unformed body]];
- [[H3605|all]] [[H3117|my days]] [[H3789|were written]] [[H5612|in Your book]]
- and [[H3335|ordained for me]]
- (BSB) before one of them came to be.
- (NASB) [[H3808|When as yet there was not]] [[H0259|one]] of them.
- 17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, {Or "How amazing are Your thoughts concerning me" } O God,
- how vast is their sum!
- 18 If I were to count them,
- they would outnumber the grains of sand;
- and when I awake,
- I am still with You.
- 19 O God, that You would slay the wicked —
- away from me, you bloodthirsty men —
- 20 who speak of You deceitfully;
- Your enemies take Your name in vain. {Hebrew "Your enemies take in vain" or "Your enemies bear up in vain" ; LXX "Your enemies take Your cities in vain"}
- 21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD,
- and detest those who rise against You?
- 22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
- I count them as my enemies.
- 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
- test me and know my concerns.
- 24 See if there is any offensive way in me;
- lead me in the way everlasting.
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