Psalms 139
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Psalm 139
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
For the choir director. A psalm of David.
1 Lord, you have searched me and known me.#Ps 17:3; 44:21; Jr 12:3
2You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
you understand my thoughts from far away.#2Kg 19:27; Is 66:18; Mt 9:4
3You observe my travels and my rest;
you are aware of all my ways.#Jb 14:16; 31:4
4Before a word is on my tongue,
you know all about it, Lord.#Heb 4:13
5You have encircled me;
you have placed your hand on me.#Jb 9:33; Ps 125:2
6This wondrous knowledge is beyond me.
It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.#Jb 42:3; Rm 11:33
7Where can I go to escape your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?#Jr 23:24
8If I go up to heaven, you are there;#Am 9:2–4
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.#Jb 26:6; Is 14:11
9If I fly on the wings of the dawn
and settle down on the western horizon,#139:9 Lit the end of the sea
10even there your hand will lead me;
your right hand will hold on to me.#Ps 23:2–3
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”#Jb 22:13–14 —
12even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to you.#Jb 34:22; Dn 2:22
13For it was you who created my inward parts;#139:13 Lit my kidneys
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.#Jb 10:11; Ps 119:73
14I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.#139:14 DSS, some LXX mss, Syr, Jer read because you are remarkable and wonderful#139:14 Hb obscure
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well.#Ps 40:5
15My bones were not hidden from you
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.#Jb 10:8–10; Ps 63:9; Ec 11:5
16Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in your book and planned
before a single one of them began.#Jb 14:5
17God, how precious#139:17 Or difficult your thoughts are to me;
how vast their sum is!
18If I counted them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand;#Ps 40:5; 92:5
when I wake up,#139:18 Some Hb mss read I come to an end I am still with you.#Ps 3:5
19God, if only you would kill the wicked —
you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me#Ps 5:6; 6:8; Is 11:4 —
20who invoke you deceitfully.
Your enemies swear by you falsely.#Ex 20:7; Jd 15
21 Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you,
and detest those who rebel against you?
22I hate them with extreme hatred;
I consider them my enemies.#Ps 26:5; 31:16
23Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.#Jb 31:6; Ps 26:2
24See if there is any offensive#139:24 Or idolatrous way in me;
lead me in the everlasting way.#Ps 16:11
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