Psalm 139

¹Lord, you have searched me out and known me; *you know my sitting down and my rising up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

²You trace my journeys and my resting-places *and are acquainted with all my ways.

³Indeed, there is not a word on my lips, *but you, O Lord, know it altogether.

⁴You press upon me behind and before *and lay your hand upon me.

⁵Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; *it is so high that I cannot attain to it.

⁶Where can I go then from your Spirit? *where can I flee from your presence?

⁷If I climb up to heaven, you are there; *if I make the grave my bed, you are there also.

⁸If I take the wings of the morning *and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

⁹Even there your hand will lead me *and your right hand hold me fast.

¹⁰If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, *and the light around me turn to night,”

¹¹Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; *darkness and light to you are both alike.

¹²For you yourself created my inmost parts; *you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹³I will thank you because I am marvelously made; *your works are wonderful, and I know it well.

¹⁴My body was not hidden from you, *while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths of the earth.

¹⁵Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb; all of them were written in your book; *they were fashioned day by day, when as yet there was none of them.

¹⁶How deep I find your thoughts, O God! *how great is the sum of them!

¹⁷If I were to count them, they would be more in number than the sand; *to count them all, my life span would need to be like yours.

¹⁸Oh, that you would slay the wicked, O God! *You that thirst for blood, depart from me.

¹⁹They speak despitefully against you; *your enemies take your Name in vain.

²⁰Do I not hate those, O Lord, who hate you? *and do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

²¹I hate them with a perfect hatred; *they have become my own enemies.

²²Search me out, O God, and know my heart; *try me and know my restless thoughts.

²³Look well whether there be any wickedness in me *and lead me in the way that is everlasting.