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A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,"</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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