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The Knowledge of God

For the music director. Of David. A psalm.[a]

139 
O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.

You understand my thought from afar.

3 You search out[b] my wandering and my lying down,

and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word yet on my tongue,

but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.

5 You barricade me behind and in front,

and set your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

It is set high; I cannot prevail against it.

7 Where I can go from your Spirit,

or where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, there you are,

and if I make my bed in Sheol, look! There you are.

9 If I lift up the wings of the dawn,

and I alight on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand would lead me,

and your right hand would hold me fast.

11 And if I should say, “Surely darkness will cover me,

and the light around me will be as night,”

12 even the darkness is not too dark for you,[c]

and the night shines as the day—

the darkness and the light are alike for you.

13 Indeed you created my inward parts;[d]

you wove me in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you, because I am fearfully

and wonderfully made.[e]

Wonderful are your works,

and my soul knows it well.

15 My frame[f] was not hidden from you,

when I was created secretly,[g]

and intricately woven

in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my embryo,[h]

and in your book they all were written—

days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.

17 And to me, how precious[i] are your thoughts, O God;

how vast is their sum.

18 If I should count them,

they would outnumber the sand.

I awaken, and I am still with you.

19 If only you would kill the wicked, O God—

so get away from me, you bloodthirsty men—[j]

20 who speak against you deceitfully.

Your enemies take your name in vain.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Yahweh?

And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

22 I hate them with a complete hatred;

they have become my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 And see if there is in me the worship of false gods,[k]

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 139:3 Hebrew “winnow”; or perhaps from another root, “measure”
  3. Psalm 139:12 Or “does not obscure from you”
  4. Psalm 139:13 Literally “kidneys”
  5. Psalm 139:14 Or “I am made wonderful fearfully”
  6. Psalm 139:15 Literally “bone”
  7. Psalm 139:15 Or “in the secret place”
  8. Psalm 139:16 Hebrew “unformed substance”
  9. Psalm 139:17 Or “difficult”
  10. Psalm 139:19 Literally “men of bloods”
  11. Psalm 139:24 Literally “a way of an idol”