139:1 O Jehovah, you have searched and known me. 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off. 139:3You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
139:4 Because there is not a word in my tongue, but behold, O Jehovah, you know it altogether. 139:5 You have beset me behind and before and laid your hand upon me.
139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain to it.
139:7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.
139:9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the outermost parts of the sea, 139:10 your hand will lead me even there and your right hand will hold me.
139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness will overwhelm me and the light around me will be night,139:12 even the darkness does not hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to you.
139:13 Because you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb.
139:14 I will give thanks to you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works and that my soul knows right well.
139:15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth. 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance and in your book they were all written, even the days that were formed, when as yet there was none of them.
139:17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the total of them! 139:18 I count them; they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
139:19 Surely you will kill the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, you* bloodthirsty men.139:20 For they speak against you wickedly and your enemies take it in vain.
139:21 Do I not hate them, O Jehovah, who hate you? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
139:23 Search me, O God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, 139:24 and see if there is any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.