Psalm 139:7–16

⁷How can I get away from your Spirit?

Where can I go to escape from you?

⁸If I go up to the heavens, you are there.

If I lie down in the deepest parts of the earth, you are also there.

⁹Suppose I were to rise with the sun in the east

and then cross over to the west where it sinks into the ocean.

¹⁰Your hand would always be there to guide me.

Your right hand would still be holding me close.

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.