Psalms
Chapter 139World English Bible
Berean Standard Bible
1LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me” -
12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
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.
17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
19If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
O God, that You would slay the wicked - away from me, you bloodthirsty men -
20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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