Psalm 139:title–12

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me.

²Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;

Thou understandest my thought afar off.

³Thou searchest out my path and my lying down,

And art acquainted with all my ways.

⁴For there is not a word in my tongue,

But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

⁵Thou hast beset me behind and before,

And laid thy hand upon me.

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

⁷Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?

Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

⁸If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:

If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

⁹If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

¹⁰Even there shall thy hand lead me,

And thy right hand shall hold me.

¹¹If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me,

And the light about me shall be night;

¹²Even the darkness hideth not from thee,

But the night shineth as the day:

The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.