Of David.
[139:1] O Lord, 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, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
[139:5] You hem me in, 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] Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where 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, “Surely the darkness shall 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 formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
[139:14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
[139:15] My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
[139:16] Your eyes saw 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. I awake, and I am still with you.
[139:19] Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
[139:20] They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.
[139:21] Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
[139:22] I hate them with complete 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 grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!