The Gospel of Grace According to David - Psalm 139

 

 

Psalm 139:1-24 (NIV) 

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

 

    O Lord, you have searched me

        and you know me.

    [2] You know when I sit and when I rise;

        you perceive my thoughts from afar.

    [3] You discern my going out and my lying down;

        you are familiar with all my ways.

    [4] Before a word is on my tongue

        you know it completely, O Lord.

 

    [5] You hem me in--behind and before;

        you have laid your hand upon me.

    [6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

        too lofty for me to attain.

 

    [7] Where can I go from your Spirit?

        Where can I flee from your presence?

    [8] If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

        if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

    [9] If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

        if I settle on the far side of the sea,

    [10] even there your hand will guide me,

        your right hand will hold me fast.

 

    [11] If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me

        and the light become night around me,"

    [12] even the darkness will not be dark to you;

        the night will shine like the day,

        for darkness is as light to you.

 

    [13] For you created my inmost being;

        you knit me together in my mother's womb.

    [14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

        your works are wonderful,

        I know that full well.

    [15] My frame was not hidden from you

        when I was made in the secret place.

    When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

        [16] your eyes saw my unformed body.

    All the days ordained for me

        were written in your book

        before one of them came to be.

 

    [17] How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

        How vast is the sum of them!

    [18] Were I to count them,

        they would outnumber the grains of sand.

    When I awake,

        I am still with you.

 

    [19] If only you would slay the wicked, O God!

        Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

    [20] They speak of you with evil intent;

        your adversaries misuse your name.

    [21] Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord,

        and abhor those who rise up against you?

    [22] I have nothing but hatred for them;

        I count them my enemies.

 

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

        test me and know my anxious thoughts.

    [24] See if there is any offensive way in me,

        and lead me in the way everlasting.

 

Psalm 139:1-24 (NIV) 

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

 

    O Lord, you have searched me

        and you know me.

    [2] You know when I sit and when I rise;

        you perceive my thoughts from afar.

    [3] You discern my going out and my lying down;

        you are familiar with all my ways.

    [4] Before a word is on my tongue

        you know it completely, O Lord.

 

    [5] You hem me in--behind and before;

        you have laid your hand upon me.

    [6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

        too lofty for me to attain.

 

    [7] Where can I go from your Spirit?

        Where can I flee from your presence?

    [8] If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

        if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

    [9] If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

        if I settle on the far side of the sea,

    [10] even there your hand will guide me,

        your right hand will hold me fast.

 

    [11] If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me

        and the light become night around me,"

    [12] even the darkness will not be dark to you;

        the night will shine like the day,

        for darkness is as light to you.

 

    [13] For you created my inmost being;

        you knit me together in my mother's womb.

    [14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

        your works are wonderful,

        I know that full well.

    [15] My frame was not hidden from you

        when I was made in the secret place.

    When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

        [16] your eyes saw my unformed body.

    All the days ordained for me

        were written in your book

        before one of them came to be.

 

    [17] How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

        How vast is the sum of them!

    [18] Were I to count them,

        they would outnumber the grains of sand.

    When I awake,

        I am still with you.

 

    [19] If only you would slay the wicked, O God!

        Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

    [20] They speak of you with evil intent;

        your adversaries misuse your name.

    [21] Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord,

        and abhor those who rise up against you?

    [22] I have nothing but hatred for them;

        I count them my enemies.

 

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

        test me and know my anxious thoughts.

    [24] See if there is any offensive way in me,

        and lead me in the way everlasting.