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Psalms 139

¹O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.

²You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.

³You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.

⁴You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord.

⁵You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!

⁷I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

⁸If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.

⁹If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

¹⁰even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.

¹¹I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—

¹²but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

¹³You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

¹⁵You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

¹⁶You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

¹⁷How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!

¹⁸I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!

¹⁹O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!

²⁰They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.

²¹O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?

²²Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²⁴Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

Psalms 139 (NLT)

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