Psalms
139
- O LORD, you have searched me and you know
me.
- You know when I sit and when I rise; you
perceive my thoughts from afar.
- You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
- Before a word is on my tongue you know it
completely, O LORD.
- You hem me in --
behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
- Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
- Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can
I flee from your presence ?
- If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
- If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I
settle on the far side of the sea,
- even there your hand will guide me, your
right hand will hold me fast.
- If I say, "Surely the darkness will
hide me and the light become night around me,"
- even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
- For you created my inmost being; you knit
me together in my mother's womb.
- I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
- 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,
- your eyes saw my unformed body. All the
days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to
be.
- How precious to me are your thoughts, O
God! How vast is the sum of them !
- Were I to count them, they would outnumber
the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
- If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men !
- They speak of you with evil intent; your
adversaries misuse your name.
- Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you ?
- I have nothing but hatred for them; I count
them my enemies.
- Search me, O God, and know my heart; test
me and know my anxious thoughts.
- See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
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