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139:1  For the music director: a psalm of David. Adonai, You searched me and know me.
139:2  Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it. You discern my thinking from afar.
139:3  You observe my journeying and my resting and You are familiar with all my ways.
139:4  Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, Adonai, You know all about it.
139:5  You hemmed me in behind and before, and laid 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 Ruach? Where can I flee from Your presence?
139:8  If I go up to heaven, You are there, and if I make my bed in Sheol, look, You are there too.
139:9  If I take the wings of the dawn and settle on the other side of the sea,
139:10  even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me.
139:11  If I say: “Surely darkness covers me, night keeps light at a distance from me,”
139:12  even darkness is not dark for You, and night is as bright as day— darkness and light are alike.
139:13  For You have created my conscience. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
139:14  I praise You, for I am awesomely, wonderfully made! Wonderful are Your works— and my soul knows that very 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 me when I was unformed, and in Your book were written the days that were formed— when not one of them had come to be.
139:17  How precious are Your thoughts, O God! How great 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 would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloody men!
139:20  For they speak about You with wicked intent. Your enemies reproach You in vain.
139:21  Do I not hate those who hate You, Adonai? Do I not loathe those who rise against You?
139:22  I hate them with total hatred— I consider them my enemies.
139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
139:24  and see if there be any offensive way within me, and lead me in the way everlasting.