Psalms 139
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Psalm 139
For the choir director; a psalm by David.
1O Lord, you have examined me, and you know me.
2You alone know when I sit down and when I get up.
You read my thoughts from far away.
3You watch me when I travel and when I rest.
You are familiar with all my ways.
4Even before there is a ⌞single⌟ word on my tongue,
you know all about it, Lord.
5You are all around me—in front of me and in back of me.
You lay your hand on me.
6Such knowledge is beyond my grasp.
It is so high I cannot reach it.
7Where can I go ⌞to get away⌟ from your Spirit?
Where can I run ⌞to get away⌟ from you?
8If I go up to heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in hell, you are there.
9If I climb upward on the rays of the morning sun
⌞or⌟ land on the most distant shore of the sea where the sun sets,
10even there your hand would guide me
and your right hand would hold on to me.
11If I say, “Let the darkness hide me
and let the light around me turn into night,”
12even the darkness is not too dark for you.
Night is as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same ⌞to you⌟.
13You alone created my inner being.
You knitted me together inside my mother.
14I will give thanks to you
because I have been so amazingly and miraculously made.
Your works are miraculous, and my soul is fully aware of this.
15My bones were not hidden from you
when I was being made in secret,
when I was being skillfully woven in an underground workshop.
16Your eyes saw me when I was still an unborn child.
Every day ⌞of my life⌟ was recorded in your book
before one of them had taken place.
17How precious are your thoughts concerning me, O God!
How vast in number they are!
18If I try to count them,
there would be more of them than there are grains of sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
19I wish that you would kill wicked people, O God,
and that bloodthirsty people would leave me alone.
20They say wicked things about you.
Your enemies misuse your name.
21Shouldn’t I hate those who hate you, O Lord?
Shouldn’t I be disgusted with those who attack you?
22I hate them with all my heart.
They have become my enemies.
23Examine me, O God, and know my mind.
Test me, and know my thoughts.
24See whether I am on an evil path.
Then lead me on the everlasting path.
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Psalms 139
139
To the Overseer. — A Psalm by David.
1 Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
2Thou — Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
3My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!
5Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.
6Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
7Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?
8If I ascend the heavens — there Thou [art], And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
9I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
10Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me.
11And I say, ‘Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night [is] light to me.
12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as [is] darkness so [is] light.
13For Thou — Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
14I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.
15My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
16Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed — And not one among them.
17And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!
18I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.
19Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
20Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity [are] Thine enemies.
21Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
22[With] perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
23Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
24And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!
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