Psalms Chapter 139
For the Choir Director. A Psalm of David
1 Yahveh, you’ve known me and examined me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I get up;
from a long way off you know what I’m thinking.
3 You search out my traveling and my resting;
you’re well acquainted with my ways.
4 Before I speak,
you know what I’m going to say.
5 You’ve protected me front and back
and laid your hand over me.
6 Knowledge like that is too amazing for me;
it’s beyond me; I can’t imagine it.
Ps 139:1-6
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I go to get away from you?
8 If I go up to the sky, you’re there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you’re there.
9 If I take the wings of morning
and live by the most distant part of the ocean,
10 even there you’ll lead me and support me.
11 If I say, “Let darkness cover me,
and the light around me become night,”
12the dark’s not dark to you;
the night’s as bright as day.
Ps 139:7-12
13 You formed my inner parts
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you; the way you’ve made me
is awesome and wonderful.
What you do is marvelous;
I know that for sure.
15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you
when I was being made in secret,
intricately put together deep in the earth.
16 You saw my unshaped substance;
you wrote in your scroll
the length of life you appointed for me
before there was any of it.
Ps 139:13-16
17 How precious your thoughts are to me!
How vast their number is!
18 If I could count them, they’d outnumber the grains of sand.
When I wake up, I’m still with you.
19 Oh that you’d slay the sinful, God.
(Go away from me, you murderers!)
20 Your enemies say awful things about you;
they use your name as a byword.
21 Don’t I hate those who hate you?
Don’t I despise the ones that oppose you?
22 I have total disdain for them;
they’re my enemies.
23 Examine me, God, and know my heart;
test me and see how anxious my thoughts are.
24 See if there’s anything offensive in me
and lead me in the everlasting way. Ps 139:17-24