Psalm 139

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Psalm 139 – New International Version (NIV)

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

  1. You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
  2. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
  3. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
  4. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
  5. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
  6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
  7. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
  8. If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
  9. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the 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 will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
  13. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
  14. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
  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.
  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.
  17. How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them!
  18. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
  19. If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
  20. They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
  21. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
  22. I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
  23. Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
  24. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Footnotes

a. Psalm 139:17 Or How amazing are your thoughts concerning me

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Psalm 139 – King James Version (KJV)

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

  1. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
  2. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
  3. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
  4. For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
  5. Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thine hand upon me.
  6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
  7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
  8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
  9. If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
  10. Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
  11. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; Even the night shall be light about me.
  12. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
  13. For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
  14. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
  15. My substance was not hid from thee, When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
  16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; And in thy book all my members were written, Which in continuance were fashioned, When as yet there was none of them.
  17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
  18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.
  19. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
  20. For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
  21. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
  22. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
  23. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts:
  24. And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.