Psalms 139
KJV

Psalms

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

You Have Searched Me and Known Me

1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.+ 2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.+ 3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.+ 4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.+ 5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.+ 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.+ 7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?+ 8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.+ 9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;+ 10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.+ 11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.+ 12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.+ 13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.+ 14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.+ 15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.+ 16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.+ 17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!+ 18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.+ 19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.+ 20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.+ 21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?+ 22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.+ 23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:+ 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.+

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