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