Psalms 139:1-24

¹For the leader. Of David, a psalm. O Lord, you search and know me;

²when I sit, when I rise you know it, you perceive my thoughts from afar.

³When I walk, when I lie you sift it, familiar with all my ways.

⁴There is not a word on my tongue, but see! Lord, you know it all.

⁵Behind and before you beset me, upon me you lay your hand.

⁶It's too wonderful for me to know too lofty I cannot attain it.

⁷Whither shall I go from your spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your face?

⁸If I climb up to heaven, you are there: or make Sheol my bed, you are there.

⁹If I lift up the wings of the morning and fly to the end of the sea,

¹⁰there also your hand would grasp me, and your right hand take hold of me.

¹¹If I say, “Let the darkness cover me, and night be the light about me,”

¹²The dark is not dark for you, but night is as light as the day.

¹³For you did put me together; in my mother's womb you did weave me.

¹⁴I give you praise for my fashioning so full of awe, so wonderful. Your works are wonderful. You knew me right well;

¹⁵my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶Your eyes saw all my days: they stood on your book every one written down, before they were fashioned, while none of them yet was mine.

¹⁷But how far, O God, beyond measure are your thoughts! How mighty their sum!

¹⁸Should I count, they are more than the sand. When I wake, I am still with you.

¹⁹Will you slay the wicked, O God? And remove from me the bloodthirsty,

²⁰who maliciously defy you and take your name in vain.

²¹Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord? Do I not loathe those who resist you?

²²With perfect hatred I hate them, I count them my enemies.

²³Search me, O God, know my heart: test me, and know my thoughts,

²⁴and see if guile be in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.