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Psalm 139

Common English Bible CEB

1 LORD, you have examined me. You know me.

2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up. Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.

3 You study my traveling and resting. You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.

4 There isn't a word on my tongue, LORD, that you don't already know completely.

5 You surround me—front and back. You put your hand on me.

6 That kind of knowledge is too much for me; it's so high above me that I can't fathom it.

7 Where could I go to get away from your spirit? Where could I go to escape 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!

9 If I could fly on the wings of dawn, stopping to rest only on the far side of the ocean—

10 even there your hand would guide me; even there your strong hand would hold me tight!

11 If I said, "The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,"

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!

13 You are the one who created my innermost parts; you knit me together while I was still 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.

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.

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.

17 God, your plans are incomprehensible to me! Their total number is countless!

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.

19 If only, God, you would kill the wicked! If only murderers would get away 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.

21 Don't I hate everyone who hates you? Don't I despise those who attack you?

22 Yes, I hate them—through and through! They've become my enemies too.

23 Examine me, God! Look at my heart! Put me to the test! Know my anxious thoughts!

24 Look to see if there is any idolatrous way in me, then lead me on the eternal path!

The Message Bible MSG

1 God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.

2 I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.

3 You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight.

4 You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.

5 I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too - your reassuring presence, coming and going.

6 This is too much, too wonderful - I can't take it all in!

7 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?

8 If I climb to the sky, you're there! If I go underground, you're there!

9 If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,

10 You'd find me in a minute - you're already there waiting!

11 Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!"

12 It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.

13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb.

14 I thank you, High God - you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration - what a creation!

15 You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.

17 Your thoughts - how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them!

18 I couldn't even begin to count them - any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

19 And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers - out of here! -

20 all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations.

21 See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;

22 I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies!

23 Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;

24 See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong - then guide me on the road to eternal life.