Psalm 139
O Lord, you have searched me out and known me
: you know when I sit or when I stand,
you comprehend my thoughts long before.
You discern my path and the places where I rest
: you are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue
: but you, Lord, know it altogether.
You have encompassed me behind and before
: and have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me
: so high that I cannot endure it.
Where shall I go from your spirit
: or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend into heaven you are there
: if I make my bed in the grave you are there also.
If I spread out my wings towards the morning
: or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there your hand shall lead me
: and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say ‘Surely the darkness will cover me
: and the night will enclose me’,
The darkness is no darkness with you,
but the night is as clear as the day
: the darkness and the light are both alike.
For you have created my inward parts
: you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you, for you are to be feared
: fearful are your acts, and wonderful your works.
You knew my soul,
and my bones were not hidden from you
: when I was formed in secret,
and woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my limbs when they were yet imperfect
: and in your book were all my members written;
Day by day they were fashioned
: and not one was late in growing.
How deep are your thoughts to me, O God
: and how great is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they are more in number than the sand
: were I to come to the end, I would still be with you.
[If only you would slay the wicked, O God
: if only the men of blood would depart from me!
For they affront you by their evil
: and your enemies exalt themselves against you.
Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate you
: do I not loathe those who rebel against you?
I hate them with a perfect hatred
: they have become my enemies.]
Search me out, O God, and know my heart
: put me to the proof and know my thoughts.
Look well lest there be any way of wickedness in me
: and lead me in the way that is everlasting.