Psalm 139
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New American Standard Bible 1995New Living Translation
1For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.1O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
2You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
4Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.
5You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
7Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
8If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
9If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,"11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—
12Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.12but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
13For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.16You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
18If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
19O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
20For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.
21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
22I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
23Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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