139:1 [For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.] You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
139:3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
139:4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
139:5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
139:10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
139:12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
139:15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts,* God! How vast is the sum of them! / *Or How amazing are your thoughts concerning me
139:18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand - when I awake, I am still with you.
139:19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
139:20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
139:22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
139:24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.