How Many Of Us Should Study Psalm 139!

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

1] 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.