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139:1  To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 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 afar.
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, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
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 high; I cannot attain it.
139:7  Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall 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 dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
139:10  even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
139:11  If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night”,
139:12  even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
139:13  For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
139:14  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it 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 saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
139:17  How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
139:18  If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
139:19  Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
139:20  They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain!
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 complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
139:24  And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!