Psalms 139:1 (BSB)
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

Psalms 139:2 (BSB)
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Psalms 139:3 (BSB)
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

Psalms 139:4 (BSB)
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

Psalms 139:5 (BSB)
You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Psalms 139:6 (BSB)
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Psalms 139:7 (BSB)
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

Psalms 139:8 (BSB)
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Psalms 139:9 (BSB)
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

Psalms 139:10 (BSB)
even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

Psalms 139:11 (BSB)
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

Psalms 139:12 (BSB)
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

Psalms 139:13 (BSB)
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalms 139:14 (BSB)
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

Psalms 139:15 (BSB)
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Psalms 139:16 (BSB)
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Psalms 139:17 (BSB)
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

Psalms 139:18 (BSB)
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

Psalms 139:19 (BSB)
O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

Psalms 139:20 (BSB)
who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

Psalms 139:21 (BSB)
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

Psalms 139:22 (BSB)
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.

Psalms 139:23 (BSB)
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

Psalms 139:24 (BSB)
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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