139 1 O Yahweh, you have searched me and known me!
139 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
139 3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
139 4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
lo, O Yahweh, you know it altogether.
139 5 You beset me behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
139 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high, I cannot attain it.
139 7 Whither shall I go from your Spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from your presence?
139 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
139 9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
139 10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
139 11 If I say, "Let only darkness cover me,
and the light about me be night,"
139 12 even the darkness is not dark to you,
the night is bright as the day;
for darkness is as light with you.
139 13 For you made my inward parts,
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
139 14 I praise you, for you are fearful and wonderful.
Wonderful are your works!
You know me right well;
139 15 my frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
139 16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
139 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
139 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
When I awake, I am still with you.
139 19 O that you would slay the wicked, O God,
and that men of blood would depart from me,
139 20 men who maliciously defy you,
who lift themselves up against you for evil!
139 21 Do I not hate them that hate you, O Yahweh?
And do I not loathe them that rise up against you?
139 22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
139 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
139 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!