139:1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise you perceive my thoughts from afar.
139:3 You discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar with all my ways.
139:4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
139:5 You hem me in behind and before you have laid your hand upon me.
139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there if I make my bed in the depths, [Hebrew: Sheol] you are there.
139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
139:10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,
139:12 even the darkness will not be dark to you the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
139:13 For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
139:15 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,
139:16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
139:17 How precious to [Or concerning] me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
139:18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
139:19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
139:20 They speak of you with evil intent your adversaries misuse your name.
139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
139:22 I have nothing but hatred for them I count them my enemies.
139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts.
139:24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.140 FOR THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC. A PSALM OF DAVID.