Psalm
139: 1-17
1
O LORD, you have searched me and known me.
2
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my
thoughts from far away.
3
You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with
all my ways.
4
Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely.
5
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot
attain it.
7
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your
presence?
8
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol,
you
are there.
9
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits
of
the sea,
10
even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold
me fast.
11
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light
around me
become night,"
12
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the
day, for darkness is as light to you.
13
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in
my mother's womb.
14
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful
are
your works; that I know very well.
15
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16
Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet
existed.
17
How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of
them!
