Psalm 139

PSALM 139

Where Can I Go from Your Spirit?

For the choir director. Of David. A Psalm.

¹O Yahweh, You have ^asearched me and known me.

²You ^aknow ¹when I sit down and ²when I rise up;

You ^bunderstand my thought from afar.

³You ^1ascrutinize my ²path and my lying down,

And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

⁴¹Even before there is a word on my tongue,

Behold, O Yahweh, You ^aknow it all.

⁵You have ^aenclosed me behind and before,

And You have ^bput Your hand upon me.

⁶Such ^aknowledge is ^btoo wonderful for me;

It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

^7aWhere can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

^8aIf I ascend to heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, ^bYou are there.

⁹If I lift up the wings of the dawn,

If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

¹⁰Even there Your hand will ^alead me,

And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

¹¹If I say, “Surely the ^adarkness will ^bbruise me,

And the light around me will be night,”

¹²Even the ^adarkness is not too dark for You,

And the night is as bright as the day.

^bDarkness and light are alike to You.

¹³For You ^aformed my ¹inward parts;

You ^bwove me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴I will give thanks to You, for ¹I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

^aWonderful are Your works,

And my soul knows it very well.

¹⁵My ^1aframe was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And ^bintricately woven in the ^cdepths of the earth;

¹⁶Your ^aeyes have seen my unshaped substance;

And in ^bYour book all of them were written

The ^cdays that were formed for me,

When as yet there was not one of them.

¹⁷How precious are Your ^athoughts to me, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸If I should count them, they would ^aoutnumber the sand.

When ^bI awake, I am still with You.

¹⁹Oh that You would ^aslay the wicked, O God!

^bO ^cmen of bloodshed, depart from me.

²⁰For they ^aspeak ¹against You wickedly,

And Your enemies ^2btake Your name in vain.

²¹Do I not ^ahate those who hate You, O Yahweh?

And do I not ^brevile those who rise up against You?

²²I hate them with the utmost hatred;

They have become my enemies.

^23aSearch me, O God, and know my heart;

^bTry me and know my anxious thoughts;

²⁴And see if there be any ^1ahurtful way in me,

And ^blead me in the ^ceverlasting way.