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Of David. A psalm.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>You have searched me, <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">and you know 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 and when I rise;</p><p class="line2">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You discern my going out and my lying down;</p><p class="line2">you are familiar with all my ways.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Before a word is on my tongue</p><p class="line2">you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, know it completely.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You hem me in behind and before,</p><p class="line2">and you lay your hand upon me.</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 lofty for me to attain.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Where can I go from your Spirit?</p><p class="line2">Where can I flee 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 the heavens, you are there;</p><p class="line2">if I make my bed in the depths, 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 rise on the wings of the dawn,</p><p class="line2">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</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">your right hand will hold me fast.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me</p><p class="line2">and the light become night around me,”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>even the darkness will not be dark to you;</p><p class="line2">the night will shine like the day,</p><p class="line2">for darkness is as light to you.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For you created my inmost being;</p><p class="line2">you 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>I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</p><p class="line2">your works are wonderful,</p><p class="line2">I know that full well.</p> <p class="line1"><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="line2">when I was made in the secret place,</p><p class="line2">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Your eyes saw my unformed body;</p><p class="line2">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</p><p class="line2">before one of them came to be.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How precious to me are your thoughts, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or How amazing are your thoughts concerning me">a</a></sup></span> God!</p><p class="line2">How vast is the sum of them!</p> <p class="line1"><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="line2">they would outnumber the grains of sand—</p><p class="line2">when I awake, I am still with you.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</p><p class="line2">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They speak of you with evil intent;</p><p class="line2">your adversaries misuse your name.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Do I not hate those who hate you, <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I have nothing but hatred for them;</p><p class="line2">I count them my enemies.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Search me, 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>See if there is any offensive way in me,</p><p class="line2">and lead me in the way everlasting.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>How amazing are your thoughts concerning me</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a 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