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139:1  For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
139:2  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
139:3  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
139:4  Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
139:5  You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
139:7  Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
139:8  If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
139:9  If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
139:10  even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
139:11  If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
139:12  even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
139:13  For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
139:14  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
139:15  My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
139:16  Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
139:17  How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
139:18  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand-- when I awake, I am still with you.
139:19  If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
139:20  They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
139:21  Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
139:22  I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
139:23  Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
139:24  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.