^1. Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

^1. O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

^2. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

^3. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

^4. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

^5. You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

^6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

^7. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

^8. If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, [1] you are there.

^9. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

^10. even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

^11. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"

^12. even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

^13. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

^14. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

^15. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

^16. your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

^17. How precious to [2] me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

^18. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

^19. If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

^20. They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.

^21. Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?

^22. I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

^23. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

^24. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.