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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 139 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/139.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/139-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Psalm 139</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/psalms/139.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="psalmheading">To the Music Director: A Davidic Song</p><p class="heading">God’s Knowledge and Presence</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>LORD, you have examined me;</p> <p class="poetry2">you have known me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You know when I rest<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:2 Lit. know my sitting">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and when I am active.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:2 Lit. and my rising">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">You understand what I am thinking</p> <p class="poetry2">when I am distant from you.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:2 Or thinking from a distance">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You scrutinize my life and my rest;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:3 Or death; Lit. my path and my lying down">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">you are familiar with all of my ways.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Even before I have formed a word with my tongue,</p> <p class="poetry2">you, LORD, know it completely!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You encircle me from back to front,</p> <p class="poetry2">placing your hand upon me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Knowledge like this is too amazing for me.</p> <p class="poetry2">It is beyond my reach,</p> <p class="poetry2">and I cannot fathom it.</p> <p class="heading">The Magnitude of God</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Where can I flee from your spirit?</p> <p class="poetry2">Or where will I run from your presence?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If I rise to heaven, there you are!</p> <p class="poetry2">If I lay down with the dead,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:8 Lit. to Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead">e</a></span> there you are!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>If I take wings with the dawn</p> <p class="poetry2">and settle down on the western horizon<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:9 Lit. the end of the sea">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>your hand will guide me there, too,</p> <p class="poetry2">while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If I say, “Darkness will surely conceal me,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the light around me will become night,”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:11 So MT LXX; DSS 11QPs reads And let me say, “Surely darkness conceals and night has girded me about.”">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>even darkness isn’t dark to you,</p> <p class="poetry2">darkness and light are the same to you.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:12 The Heb. lacks to you">h</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It was you who formed my internal organs,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:13 Lit. my kidneys">i</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">fashioning me within my mother’s womb.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I praise you,</p> <p class="poetry2">because you are fearful and wondrous!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:14 So DSS 11QPsa Syr Hieronymus; MT LXX read because I am fearfully and wonderfully made">j</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Your work is wonderful,</p> <p class="poetry2">and I am fully aware of it.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My frame was not hidden from you</p> <p class="poetry2">while I was being crafted in a hidden place,</p> <p class="poetry2">knit together in the depths of the earth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your eyes looked upon my embryo,</p> <p class="poetry2">and everything was recorded in your book.</p> <p class="poetry2">The days scheduled<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:16 The Heb. lacks scheduled">k</a></span> for my formation were inscribed,</p> <p class="poetry2">even though not one of them had come yet.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:16 The Heb. lacks had come yet">l</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How deep<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:17 Or precious">m</a></span> are your thoughts, God!</p> <p class="poetry2">How great is their number!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Were I to count them,</p> <p class="poetry2">they would number more than the sand.</p> <p class="poetry2">When I awake, I will be with you.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God, if only you would execute the wicked,</p> <p class="poetry2">so that<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:19 So LXX DSS 11QPsa; MT reads and so that">n</a></span> the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>who speak against you with evil motives,</p> <p class="poetry2">your enemies who are acting in vain.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not?</p> <p class="poetry2">I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>With consummate hatred I hate them;</p> <p class="poetry2">I consider them my enemies.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Examine me, God, and know my mind,</p> <p class="poetry2">test me, and know my thoughts.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>See if there is any offensive tendency<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="139:24 Lit. way">o</a></span> in me,</p> <p class="poetry2">and lead me in the eternal way.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 139:2 Lit. <i>know my sitting</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 139:2 Lit. <i>and my rising</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 139:2 Or <i>thinking from a distance</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 139:3 Or <i>death</i>; Lit. <i>my path and my lying down</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 139:8 Lit. <i>to Sheol</i>; i.e. the realm of the dead<br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 139:9 Lit. <i>the end of the sea</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 139:11 So MT LXX; DSS 11QPs reads <i>And let me say, “Surely darkness conceals and night has girded me about.”</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 139:12 The Heb. lacks <i>to you</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 139:13 Lit. <i>my kidneys</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 139:14 So DSS 11QPsa Syr Hieronymus; MT LXX read <i>because I am fearfully and wonderfully made</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 139:16 The Heb. lacks <i>scheduled</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 139:16 The Heb. lacks <i>had come yet</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 139:17 Or <i>precious</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 139:19 So LXX DSS 11QPsa; MT reads <i>and so that</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 139:24 Lit. <i>way</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/138.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 138"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 138" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/140.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 140"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 140" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/psalms/139-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>