Psalms 139:1-19

¹For the chief musician. A psalm of David. Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know me.

²You know when I sit down and when I get up; you understand my thoughts from far away.

³You observe my path and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

⁴For before there is a word on my tongue, you know it completely, Yahweh.

⁵Behind me and before me you surround me and place your hand upon me.

⁶Such knowledge is too much for me; it is too high, and I cannot reach it.

⁷Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸If I ascend up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.

⁹If I fly away on the wings of the morning and go to live in the uttermost parts across the sea,

¹⁰even there your hand will lead me, your right hand will hold on to me.

¹¹If I said, “Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light will become night around me,”

¹²even the darkness would not be dark to you. The night would shine like the day, for the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

¹³You formed my inner parts; you formed me in my mother's womb.

¹⁴I will praise you, for I am wonderfully made. My soul knows this very well.

¹⁵My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in private, when I was intricately made in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶You saw me inside the womb; all the days assigned to me were recorded in your book even before the first one happened.

¹⁷How precious are your thoughts to me, God! How vast is their sum!

¹⁸If I tried to count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹If only you would kill the wicked, God; get away from me, you violent men.