Psalms 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 You have searched me, LORD, 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, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay 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, 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 me are your thoughts,[a] 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, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, 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.

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Cross References 42

  • 1. S Psalms 17:3; Romans 8:27
  • 2. Psalms 44:21; Jeremiah 12:3
  • 3. 2 Kings 19:27
  • 4. Psalms 94:11; Proverbs 24:12; Jeremiah 12:3; Matthew 9:4; John 2:24
  • 5. 2 Kings 19:27
  • 6. S Job 31:4
  • 7. S Hebrews 4:13
  • 8. S 1 Samuel 25:16; Psalms 32:10; Psalms 34:7; Psalms 125:2
  • 9. S Psalms 131:1
  • 10. Job 42:3; Romans 11:33
  • 11. Jeremiah 23:24; John 1:3
  • 12. Deuteronomy 30:12-15; Amos 9:2-3
  • 13. Job 17:13; Proverbs 15:11
  • 14. Psalms 23:3
  • 15. Psalms 108:6; Isaiah 41:10
  • 16. Job 34:22; Daniel 2:22
  • 17. Psalms 119:73
  • 18. S Job 10:11
  • 19. Isaiah 44:2,24; Isaiah 46:3; Isaiah 49:5; Jeremiah 1:5
  • 20. Psalms 119:164; Psalms 145:10
  • 21. S Job 40:19; Psalms 40:5
  • 22. Ecclesiastes 11:5
  • 23. S Job 10:11
  • 24. S Psalms 63:9
  • 25. S Job 33:29; S Psalms 90:12
  • 26. S Psalms 92:5
  • 27. S Job 5:9; Psalms 40:5
  • 28. Psalms 40:5
  • 29. S Job 29:18
  • 30. S Psalms 3:5
  • 31. Psalms 5:6; Isaiah 11:4
  • 32. S Psalms 6:8; Psalms 119:115
  • 33. S Psalms 59:2
  • 34. S Psalms 65:7
  • 35. S Deuteronomy 5:11; Jude 15
  • 36. 2 Chronicles 19:2; Psalms 31:6; Psalms 119:113; Psalms 119:158
  • 37. S Psalms 26:5
  • 38. Matthew 5:43
  • 39. Job 31:6; Psalms 26:2
  • 40. S 1 Samuel 16:7; S 1 Chronicles 29:17; S Psalms 7:9; Proverbs 17:3; Jeremiah 11:20; S Revelation 2:23
  • 41. Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 36:3
  • 42. Psalms 5:8; Psalms 23:2; Psalms 143:10; Proverbs 15:9

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "How amazing are your thoughts concerning me"

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