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href="../psalms/138.htm" title="Psalm 138">◄</a> Psalm 139 <a href="../psalms/140.htm" title="Psalm 140">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/psalms/139.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="d">For the choir director: A psalm of David.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O LORD, you have examined my heart</p><p class="line2">and know everything about me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You know when I sit down or stand up.</p><p class="line2">You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You see me when I travel</p><p class="line2">and when I rest at home.</p><p class="line2">You know everything I do.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You know what I am going to say</p><p class="line2">even before I say it, LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You go before me and follow me.</p><p class="line2">You place your hand of blessing on my head.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</p><p class="line2">too great for me to understand!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I can never escape from your Spirit!</p><p class="line2">I can never get away from your presence!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If I go up to heaven, you are there;</p><p class="line2">if I go down to the grave,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> you are there.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If I ride the wings of the morning,</p><p class="line2">if I dwell by the farthest oceans,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>even there your hand will guide me,</p><p class="line2">and your strength will support me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I could ask the darkness to hide me</p><p class="line2">and the light around me to become night—</p><p class="line2"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.</p><p class="line1">To you the night shines as bright as day.</p><p class="line2">Darkness and light are the same to you.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body</p><p class="line2">and knit me together in my mother’s womb.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!</p><p class="line2">Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,</p><p class="line2">as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You saw me before I was born.</p><p class="line2">Every day of my life was recorded in your book.</p><p class="line1">Every moment was laid out</p><p class="line2">before a single day had passed.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How precious are your thoughts about me,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> O God.</p><p class="line2">They cannot be numbered!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I can’t even count them;</p><p class="line2">they outnumber the grains of sand!</p><p class="line1">And when I wake up,</p><p class="line2">you are still with me!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!</p><p class="line2">Get out of my life, you murderers!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They blaspheme you;</p><p class="line2">your enemies misuse your name.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?</p><p class="line2">Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yes, I hate them with total hatred,</p><p class="line2">for your enemies are my enemies.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Search me, O God, and know my heart;</p><p class="line2">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Point out anything in me that offends you,</p><p class="line2">and lead me along the path of everlasting life.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">139:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to Sheol.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">139:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">How precious to me are your thoughts.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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