<SUP>1</SUP> O LORD , you have searched me (
Psalms 139)
and you know me.
<SUP>2</SUP> You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
<SUP>3</SUP> You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
<SUP>4</SUP> Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD .
<SUP>5</SUP> You hem me in-behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
<SUP>6</SUP> Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
<SUP>7</SUP> Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
<SUP>8</SUP> If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, <SUP>[
1]</SUP> you are there.
<SUP>9</SUP> If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
<SUP>10</SUP> even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
<SUP>11</SUP> If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
<SUP>12</SUP> even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
<SUP>13</SUP> For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
<SUP>14</SUP> I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
<SUP>15</SUP> 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,
<SUP>16</SUP> your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
<SUP>17</SUP> How precious to <SUP>[
2]</SUP> me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
<SUP>18</SUP> Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
<SUP>19</SUP> If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
<SUP>20</SUP> They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
<SUP>21</SUP> Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD ,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
<SUP>22</SUP> I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
<SUP>23</SUP> Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
<SUP>24</SUP> See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
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