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according to the Book of Common Prayer, 2019
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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.

Psalms with similar themes:

God’s Wisdom
33  104  111  113  139  145  147 

God’s Providence
23  121  33  34  124  89  139  145  146  147 

The Hope of Immortality
16  146  30  121  42  49  66  73  103  116  139 

Preparation for Holy Communion
23  25  26  43  41  63  84  122  85  86  130  133  139 

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