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139:1  Lord, you have investigated me, and you know.
139:2  You know when I sit down and when I get up. You understand my thoughts from far off.
139:3  You keep track of when I travel and when I stay, and you are familiar with all my ways.
139:4  Before there is a word on my tongue, you, Lord, already know it completely.
139:5  You put a fence behind me and in front of me, and you have placed your hand on me.
139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is too high—I cannot grasp it.
139:7  Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your Presence?
139:8  If I go up to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell—there you are!
139:9  I rise on the wings of dawn. I settle on the far side of the sea.
139:10  Even there your hand guides me, and your right hand holds on to me.
139:11  And if I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become night around me,”
139:12  then even the darkness will not be too dark for you. The night will be as light as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
139:13  For you created my inner organs. You wove me together in my mother’s womb.
139:14  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and my soul knows that very well.
139:15  My bones were 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 unfinished body. In your book all of them were written. Days were determined, before any of them existed.
139:17  Your thoughts to me are so precious, O God! How great is the sum of them!
139:18  If I would count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
139:19  If only you would slay the wicked, O God, so that bloody men would depart from me,
139:20  men who speak against you maliciously. Your adversaries misuse your name.
139:21  Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, and detest those who rise up against you?
139:22  I absolutely hate them. To me they are enemies.
139:23  Investigate me, God, and know my heart. Test me and know my troubled thoughts.
139:24  See if there is any way in me that causes pain, and lead me in the way everlasting.