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Psalms 139

¹LORD, you have examined me and you know me.

²You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.

³You see me, whether I am working or resting; you know all my actions.

⁴Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.

⁵You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power.

⁶Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.

⁷Where could I go to escape from you? Where could I get away from your presence?

⁸If I went up to heaven, you would be there; if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.

⁹If I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west,

¹⁰you would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me.

¹¹I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night,

¹²but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

¹³You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.

¹⁵When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there---

¹⁶you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.

¹⁷O God, how difficult I find your thoughts; how many of them there are!

¹⁸If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked! How I wish violent people would leave me alone!

²⁰They say wicked things about you; they speak evil things against your name.

²¹O LORD, how I hate those who hate you! How I despise those who rebel against you!

²²I hate them with a total hatred; I regard them as my enemies.

²³Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.

²⁴Find out if there is any evil in me and guide me in the everlasting way.