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