# Psalm 139 [[Ps-138|← Psalm 138]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-140|Psalm 140 →]] *** ###### v1 Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. ###### v2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. ###### v3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ###### v4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether. ###### v5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me. ###### v6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it. ###### v7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence? ###### v8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! ###### v9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea, ###### v10 even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. ###### v11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night," ###### v12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. ###### v13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. ###### v14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. ###### v15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. ###### v16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. ###### v17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum! ###### v18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. ###### v19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! ###### v20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. ###### v21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? ###### v22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies. ###### v23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. ###### v24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. *** [[Ps-138|← Psalm 138]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-140|Psalm 140 →]]