139:1  O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

139:2  I will bow down toward Your holy temple And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

139:3  On the day I called, You answered me; You made me bold with strength in my soul.

139:4  Even before a word exists on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.

139:5  You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.

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

139:7   Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

139:8  If I ascend to heaven, You dwell there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You dwell there.

139:9  If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part 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 the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will seem equivalent to night,"

139:12   Even the darkness does not seem dark to You, And the night shines as bright as the day. Darkness and light You regard as equivalent.

139:13  For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.

139:14  I will give thanks to You, for You have fearfully and wonderfully made me; We regard Your works as wonderful, And my soul knows it very well.

139:15  I cannot hide my frame from You, When You made me in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

139:16  Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book You wrote all the details The days that you ordained for me, When as yet they had not occurred.

139:17  How precious I regard Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast have they totalled!

139:18  If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand When I awake, I still reside with You.

139:19  O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

139:20  For they speak against You wickedly, And 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 the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.

139:23   Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

139:24  And see if any hurtful way exists in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.