# Psalm 139 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 
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1. O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 
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2. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 
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3. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 
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4. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 
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5. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 
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6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 
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7. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 
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8. If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 
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9. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 
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10. even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 
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11. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 
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12. even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 
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13. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 
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14. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 
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15. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 
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16. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 
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17. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 
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18. If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. 
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19. Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 
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20. They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 
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21. Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 
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22. I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. 
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23. Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 
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24. And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! 

(ESV)