RWebster - Psalms - 139

139:1  O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me .

139:2  Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

139:3  Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

139:4  For there is not a word on my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

139:5  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.

139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.

139:7  Where shall I go from thy spirit? or where shall I flee from thy presence?

139:8  If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there .

139:9  If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

139:10  Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

139:11  If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

139:12  Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee .

139:13  For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

139:14  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul well knoweth

139:15  My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and skilfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

139:16  Thy eyes saw my substance, not yet formed; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

139:17  How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

139:18  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

139:19  Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

139:20  For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy enemies take thy name in vain.

139:21  Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

139:22  I hate them with perfect 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 is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.