¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

O Lord, you have searched me,

And you know.

²You know my sitting down

And my rising up.

You discern my mind from a distance.

³You discern my travelling and my resting,

And you are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴For there is no word on my tongue

But behold, O Lord, you know all of it.

⁵You confine me behind and in front,

And you put the palms of your hands on me.

⁶Such knowledge is too wondrous for me

– It is elevated –

I cannot master it.

⁷Where can I go from your spirit,

And where can I flee from your presence?

⁸If I ascend to heaven,

You are there;

Or if I make my bed in the underworld,

Behold, you are there.

⁹Or if I take up the wings of dawn,

To dwell at the extremity of the sea,

¹⁰There your hand leads me too,

And your right hand takes hold of me.

¹¹And if I say,

“Surely darkness will envelop me”,

Yet even at night light will shine around me.

¹²Even darkness cannot be too darkening for you,

And night can shine like day.

As is darkness, so is light.

You wove me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴I will give you thanks

Because I have been awesomely wonderfully made.

Your works are wondrous,

As my being is very much aware.

¹⁵My frame is not hidden from you,

Although I was made in secret

– I was embroidered in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶Your eyes have seen my embryo,

And in your book all my days are written,

Which were formed

When not one of them had yet come to pass.

¹⁷How precious your thoughts are to me, O God;

How powerful are the things they head up!

¹⁸If I were to count them,

They would be more numerous than grains of sand.

When I awake,

I am still with you.

¹⁹Surely, O God, you will kill the wicked man,

And say, “You men of blood, depart from me”,

²⁰Because they speak against you in deceit;

Your enemies utter falsehood.

²¹Do I not hate, O Lord,

Those who hate you?

And do I not loathe

Those who rise up against you?

²²I have hated them with perfect hatred;

They have become enemies of mine.

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Examine me, and know my thoughts,

²⁴And see whether there is any idolatrous way in me,

And lead me along the age-abiding way.

Reference(s) in Chapter 139: v.13 ↔ Revelation 2:23 ● v.21 ↔ Matthew 5:43 ● v.22 ↔ Matthew 5:43.