Psalm 139: You Have Searched Me

¹O LORD, you have searched me and known me. ²You know my sitting down and my rising up; you understand my thought from afar. ³You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴For there is not a word on my tongue, but look, O LORD, you know it altogether. ⁵You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. ⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it. ⁷Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? ⁸If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, you are there. ⁹If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, ¹⁰even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. ¹¹If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall cover me,' even the night shall be light about me. ¹²Yes, the darkness does not hide from you, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to you. ¹³For you have possessed my reins; you have covered me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵My substance was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my substance, yet being unperfect, and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. ¹⁷How precious also are your thoughts to 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 you. ¹⁹Surely you will slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, you bloody men. ²⁰For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain. ²¹Do I not hate them, O LORD, that hate you? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against you? ²²I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. ²³Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts. ²⁴And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.