Psalm 139

     O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. 

Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

     Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

     For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

     Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 

     Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it.

 

     Wither shall I go to flee from thy spirit? or wither shall I flee from thy presence?

     If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:  if I make my bed in hell, behold thou art there.

     If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the outermost parts of the sea;

     Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

     If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

 

     Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

     For thou hast possessed thy reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

     I will praise thee; for  am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

     My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

     Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when was none of them. 

 

     How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

     If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

     Surely, thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men...

     For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy enemies take thy name in vain.

     Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

     And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. 

         

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