Psalm 139:1-24 AMP

[1] O LORD, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me. [2] You know when I sit down and when I rise up [my entire life, everything I do]; You understand my thought from afar. [3] You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways. [4] Even before there is a word on my tongue [still unspoken], Behold, O LORD, You know it all. [5] You have enclosed me behind and before, And [You have] placed Your hand upon me. [6] Such [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high [above me], I cannot reach it. [7] Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? [8] If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there. [9] If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, [10] Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me. [11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, And the night will be the only light around me,” [12] Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You, But the night shines as bright as the day; Darkness and light are alike to You. [13] For You formed my innermost parts; You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb. [14] I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. [15] My frame was not hidden from You, When I was being formed in secret, And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were appointed for me, When as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape]. [17] How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! [18] If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. [19] O that You would kill the wicked, O God; Go away from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. [20] For they speak against You wickedly, Your enemies take Your name in vain. [21] Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? [22] I hate them with perfect and utmost hatred; They have become my enemies. [23] Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart; Test me and know my anxious thoughts; [24] And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

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