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Psalms 139
[1]
and you know me.
[2] You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
[3] You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
[4] For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
[5] You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
[6] This knowledge is beyond me.
It’s lofty.
I can’t attain it.
[7] Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
[8] If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
[9] If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
[10] even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
[11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.
The light around me will be night,”
[12] even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
[13] For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
[15] My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
[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.
[17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum!
[18] If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
[19] If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
[20] For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
[21] Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
[22] I hate them with perfect hatred.
They have become my enemies.
[23] Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
[24] See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Yahweh, you have searched me,and you know me.
[2] You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
[3] You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
[4] For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
[5] You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
[6] This knowledge is beyond me.
It’s lofty.
I can’t attain it.
[7] Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
[8] If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
[9] If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
[10] even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
[11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.
The light around me will be night,”
[12] even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
[13] For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
[15] My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
[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.
[17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum!
[18] If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
[19] If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
[20] For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
[21] Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
[22] I hate them with perfect hatred.
They have become my enemies.
[23] Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
[24] See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.