Psalms 139 — AAB

You Have Searched Me and Known Me

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

139Verse 1O LORD, You have searched meand known me.^{Verse 2}You know when I sit and when I rise;You understand my thoughts from afar.^{Verse 3}You search out my path and my lying down;You are aware of all my ways.^{Verse 4}Even before a word is on my tongue,You know all about it, O LORD.^{Verse 5}You hem me in behind and before;You have laid Your hand upon me.^{Verse 6}Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain.^{Verse 7}Where can I go to escape Your Spirit?Where can I flee from Your presence?^{Verse 8}If I ascend to the heavens, You are there;if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.^{Verse 9}If I rise on the wings of the dawn,if I settle by the farthest sea,^{Verse 10}even there Your hand will guide me;Your right hand will hold me fast.^{Verse 11}If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,and the light become night around me”—^{Verse 12}even the darkness is not dark to You,but the night shines like the day,
for darkness is as light to You.^{Verse 13}For You formed my inmost being;⁺You knit me together in my mother’s womb.^{Verse 14}I praise You,for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Marvelous are Your works,and I know this very well.^{Verse 15}My frame was not hidden from Youwhen I was made in secret,when I was woven togetherin the depths of the earth.^{Verse 16}Your eyes saw my unformed body;all my days were written in Your bookand ordained for mebefore one of them came to be.^{Verse 17}How precious to me are Your thoughts,⁺O God,how vast is their sum!^{Verse 18}If I were to count them,they would outnumber the grains of sand;and when I awake,I am still with You.^{Verse 19}O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—^{Verse 20}who speak of You deceitfully;Your enemies take Your name in vain.^{+Verse 21}Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD,and detest those who rise against You?^{Verse 22}I hate them with perfect hatred;I count them as my enemies.^{Verse 23}Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my concerns.^{Verse 24}See if there is any offensive way in me;lead me in the way everlasting.