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Psalm 139

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1 LORD, you have examined me. You know me.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up. Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You study my traveling and resting. You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 There isn't a word on my tongue, LORD, that you don't already know completely.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You surround me—front and back. You put your hand on me.
5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me; it's so high above me that I can't fathom it.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where could I go to get away from your spirit? Where could I go to escape your presence?
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there. If I went down to the grave, you would be there too!
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I could fly on the wings of dawn, stopping to rest only on the far side of the ocean—
9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand would guide me; even there your strong hand would hold me tight!
10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I said, "The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,"
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night, ”
12 even then the darkness isn't too dark for you! Nighttime would shine bright as day, because darkness is the same as light to you!
12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
13 You are the one who created my innermost parts; you knit me together while I was still in my mother's womb.
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart. Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My bones weren't hidden from you when I was being put together in a secret place, when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo, and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me, before any one of them had yet happened.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me! Their total number is countless!
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand! If I came to the very end—I'd still be with you.
18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
19 If only, God, you would kill the wicked! If only murderers would get away from me—
19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
20 the people who talk about you, but only for wicked schemes; the people who are your enemies, who use your name as if it were of no significance.
20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Don't I hate everyone who hates you? Don't I despise those who attack you?
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 Yes, I hate them—through and through! They've become my enemies too.
22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
23 Examine me, God! Look at my heart! Put me to the test! Know my anxious thoughts!
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 Look to see if there is any idolatrous way in me, then lead me on the eternal path!
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
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