Psalms - Chapter 139 | Good News Translation

  • 1. LORD, you have examined me and you know me.
  • 2. You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.
  • 3. You see me, whether I am working or resting; you know all my actions.
  • 4. Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.
  • 5. You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power.
  • 6. Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.
  • 7. Where could I go to escape from you? Where could I get away from your presence?
  • 8. If I went up to heaven, you would be there; if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.
  • 9. If I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west,
  • 10. you would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me.
  • 11. I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night,
  • 12. but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
  • 13. You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.
  • 14. I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.
  • 15. When 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---
  • 16. you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.
  • 17. O God, how difficult I find your thoughts; how many of them there are!
  • 18. If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
  • 19. O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked! How I wish violent people would leave me alone!
  • 20. They say wicked things about you; they speak evil things against your name.
  • 21. O LORD, how I hate those who hate you! How I despise those who rebel against you!
  • 22. I hate them with a total hatred; I regard them as my enemies.
  • 23. Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.
  • 24. Find out if there is any evil in me and guide me in the everlasting way.
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