Psalm 139

Domine, probasti

¹ O Lord, you have searched me out and known me;*

you know my sitting down and my rising up; you understand my thoughts from afar.

² You examine my path and my places of rest,*

and are acquainted with all my ways.

³ Indeed, there is not a word on my tongue,*

but you, O Lord, know it altogether.

⁴ You have enclosed me behind and before,*

and have laid your hand upon me.

⁵ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,*

so excellent I cannot attain to it.

⁶ Where shall I go then from your Spirit,*

or where shall I flee from your presence?

⁷ If I climb up to heaven, you are there;*

if I make my bed in the Grave, you are there also.

⁸ If I take the wings of the morning*

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

⁹ Even there shall your hand lead me,*

and your right hand shall hold me.

¹⁰ If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,"*

then shall my night be turned to day.

¹¹ Even the darkness is not dark to you, and the night is as clear as the day;*

the darkness and the light to you are both alike.

¹² For you yourself made my inmost parts;*

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

¹³ I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;*

marvelous are your works, and my soul knows it very well.

¹⁴ My bones were not hidden from you*

when I was made in secret and fashioned in the depths of the earth.

¹⁵ Your eyes beheld my substance, while I was yet unformed;*

and in your book were all my members written,

¹⁶ Which day by day were fashioned,*

when as yet there was none of them.

¹⁷ How dear to me are your thoughts, O God.*

How great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I were to count them, they would be more in number than the sand.*

When I wake up, I am present with you.

¹⁹ Oh, that you would slay the wicked, O God!*

Depart from me, you bloodthirsty men.

²⁰ For they speak unrighteously against you;*

your enemies take your Name in vain.

²¹ Do I not hate those, O Lord, who hate you,*

and do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

²² Indeed, I hate them with a perfect hatred;*

they have become my own enemies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;*

try me and examine my thoughts.

²⁴ Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me,*

and lead me in the way everlasting.

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God’s Wisdom
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The Hope of Immortality
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