1. Psalm 139: 1-2
(NIV)
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
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2. Psalm 139: 3
(NIV)
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
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4. Psalm 139: 5
(NIV)
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
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5. Psalm 139: 6
(NIV)
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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6. Psalm 139: 7
(NIV)
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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7. Psalm 139: 8
(NIV)
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
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8. Psalm 139: 9-10
(NIV)
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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9. Psalm 139: 11-12
(NIV)
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
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10. Psalm 139: 13
(NIV)
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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11. Psalm 139: 14
(NIV)
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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12. Psalm 139: 15
(NIV)
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
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13. Psalm 139: 16
(NIV)
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your Book before one of them came to be.
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14. Psalm 139: 17
(NIV)
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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15. Psalm 139: 18
(NIV)
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand- when I awake, I am still with you.
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16. Psalm 139: 19
(NIV)
If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
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17. Psalm 139: 20
(NIV)
They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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18. Psalm 139: 21
(NIV)
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
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20. Psalm 139: 23
(NIV)
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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21. Psalm 139: 24
(NIV)
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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