Psalm 139:11–18

¹¹Suppose I were to say, “I’m sure the darkness will hide me.

The light around me will become as dark as night.”

¹²Even that darkness would not be dark to you.

The night would shine like the day,

because darkness is like light to you.

¹³You created the deepest parts of my being.

You put me together inside my mother’s body.

¹⁴How you made me is amazing and wonderful.

I praise you for that.

What you have done is wonderful.

I know that very well.

¹⁵None of my bones was hidden from you

when you made me inside my mother’s body.

That place was as dark as the deepest parts of the earth.

When you were putting me together there,

¹⁶your eyes saw my body even before it was formed.

You planned how many days I would live.

You wrote down the number of them in your book

before I had lived through even one of them.

¹⁷God, your thoughts about me are priceless.

No one can possibly add them all up.

¹⁸If I could count them,

they would be more than the grains of sand.

If I were to fall asleep counting and then wake up,

you would still be there with me.