New King James Version (Tinasha LaRaye)

New King James Version (Simon Bubb)

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         <div class="label">139</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Perfect Knowledge of Man</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 10:3, 8</span></span><span class="content">You have searched me and known </span><span class="it"><span class="content">me.</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 17:3; Jer. 12:3</span></span><span class="content">You know my sitting down and my rising up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">You </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">2 Kin. 19:27</span></span><span class="content">understand my thought afar off.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Is. 66:18; Matt. 9:4</span></span><span class="content">You comprehend my path and my lying down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">And are acquainted with all my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For </span><span class="it"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not a word on my tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="it"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> behold, O </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 14:16; 31:4</span></span><span class="content">You know it altogether.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have hedged me behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">And laid Your hand upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Heb. 4:13)</span></span><span class="it"><span class="content">Such</span></span><span class="content"> knowledge </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> too wonderful for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">It is high, I cannot </span><span class="it"><span class="content">attain</span></span><span class="content"> it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 42:3; Ps. 40:5</span></span><span class="content">Where can I go from Your Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Or where can I flee from Your presence?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Jer. 23:24; Amos 9:2&#8211;4)</span></span><span class="content">If I ascend into heaven, You </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Amos 9:2&#8211;4)</span></span><span class="content">If I make my bed in hell, behold, You </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">there.</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="it"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I take the wings of the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="it"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Even there Your hand shall lead me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">And Your right hand shall hold me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness shall fall on me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">Even the night shall be light about me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Indeed, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Job 26:6; Prov. 15:11)</span></span><span class="content">the darkness shall not hide from You,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">But the night shines as the day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">The darkness and the light </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> both alike </span><span class="it"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">You.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For You formed my inward parts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">You covered me in my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will praise You, for I am fearfully </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> wonderfully made;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">Marvelous are Your works,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">And </span><span class="it"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> my soul knows very well.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 26:6; 34:22; (Dan. 2:22; Heb. 4:13)</span></span><span class="content">My frame was not hidden from You,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">When I was made in secret,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="it"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">And in Your book they all were written,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">The days fashioned for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">When </span><span class="it"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">yet</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> none of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 10:8, 9; Eccl. 11:5</span></span><span class="content">How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How great is the sum of them!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="it"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">When I awake, I am still with You.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Oh, that You would </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Ps. 40:5; Rom. 11:33)</span></span><span class="content">slay the wicked, O God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">(Is. 11:4)</span></span><span class="content">Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For they </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 119:115</span></span><span class="content">speak against You wickedly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">Your enemies take </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Your</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">name</span></span><span class="content"> in vain.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Jude 15</span></span><span class="content">Do I not hate them, O </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who hate You?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I hate them with perfect hatred;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">2 Chr. 19:2</span></span><span class="content">Search me, O God, and know my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">Try me, and know my anxieties;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And see if </span><span class="it"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">any</span></span><span class="content"> wicked way in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="content">And </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 31:6; Ps. 26:2</span></span><span class="content">lead me in the way everlasting.</span></span></div>
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O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.

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