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139:1  To the leader. Of David. A Psalm. O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
139:2  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.
139:3  You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
139:4  Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.
139:5  You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
139:7  Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
139:8  If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
139:9  If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
139:10  even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.
139:11  If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and night wraps itself around me,”
139:12  even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
139:13  For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
139:14  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.
139:15  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
139:16  Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.
139:17  How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
139:18  I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end—I am still with you.
139:19  O that you would kill the wicked, O God, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me—
139:20  those who speak of you maliciously and lift themselves up against you for evil!
139:21  Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
139:22  I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
139:24  See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.