139:1 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

139:3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

139:4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

139:5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

139:7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

139:10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"

139:12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

139:15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

139:16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

139:18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

139:19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

139:20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.

139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?

139:22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

139:24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.