Psalm 139:1WEB
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Psalm 139:1WEB
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 139:2WEB
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 139:3WEB
You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
Psalm 139:4WEB
For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 139:5WEB
You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
Psalm 139:6WEB
This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
Psalm 139:7WEB
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
Psalm 139:8WEB
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
Psalm 139:9WEB
If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Psalm 139:10WEB
even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
Psalm 139:11WEB
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
Psalm 139:12WEB
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Psalm 139:13WEB
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:14WEB
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
Psalm 139:15WEB
My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
Psalm 139:16WEB
Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Psalm 139:17WEB
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
Psalm 139:18WEB
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
Psalm 139:19WEB
If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
Psalm 139:20WEB
For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
Psalm 139:21WEB
Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 139:22WEB
I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Psalm 139:23WEB
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Psalm 139:24WEB
See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.