Psalms 139:1-24

LORD, you have searched me and known me.  You know when I sit down and when I stand up; you understand my thoughts from far away.  You observe my travels and my rest; you are aware of all my ways.  Before a word is on my tongue, you know all about it,  LORD.  You have encircled me; you have placed your hand on me.  This wondrous knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.  Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?  If I go up to heaven, you are there;  if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.  If I fly on the wings of the dawn and settle down on the western horizon,  even there your hand will lead me; your right hand will hold on to me.  If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night”   — even the darkness is not dark to you. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to you.  For it was you who created my inward parts;  you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I will praise you because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.  , Your works are wondrous, and I know this very well.  My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth.  Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began.  God, how precious  your thoughts are to me; how vast their sum is! If I counted them, they would outnumber the grains of sand;  when I wake up,  I am still with you.  God, if only you would kill the wicked — you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me   — who invoke you deceitfully. Your enemies swear by you falsely.  LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you, and detest those who rebel against you? I hate them with extreme hatred; I consider them my enemies.  Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.  See if there is any offensive   way in me; lead me in the everlasting way.