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139:1  Lord, you have examined me. You know me.
139:2  You know when I sit down and when I stand up. Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
139:3  You study my traveling and resting. You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
139:4  There isn’t a word on my tongue, Lord, that you don’t already know completely.
139:5  You surround me—front and back. You put your hand on me.
139:6  That kind of knowledge is too much for me; it’s so high above me that I can’t reach it.
139:7  Where could I go to get away from your spirit? Where could I go to escape your presence?
139:8  If I went up to heaven, you would be there. If I went down to the grave, you would be there too!
139:9  If I could fly on the wings of dawn, stopping to rest only on the far side of the ocean—
139:10  even there your hand would guide me; even there your strong hand would hold me tight!
139:11  If I said, “The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,”
139:12  even then the darkness isn’t too dark for you! Nighttime would shine bright as day, because darkness is the same as light to you!
139:13  You are the one who created my innermost parts; you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
139:14  I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart. Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
139:15  My bones weren’t hidden from you when I was being put together in a secret place, when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
139:16  Your eyes saw my embryo, and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me, before any one of them had yet happened.
139:17  God, your plans are incomprehensible to me! Their total number is countless!
139:18  If I tried to count them—they outnumber grains of sand! If I came to the very end—I’d still be with you.
139:19  If only, God, you would kill the wicked! If only murderers would get away from me—
139:20  the people who talk about you, but only for wicked schemes; the people who are your enemies, who use your name as if it were of no significance.
139:21  Don’t I hate everyone who hates you? Don’t I despise those who attack you?
139:22  Yes, I hate them—through and through! They’ve become my enemies too.
139:23  Examine me, God! Look at my heart! Put me to the test! Know my anxious thoughts!
139:24  Look to see if there is any idolatrous way in me, then lead me on the eternal path!