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139:1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me. 139:2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely. 139:5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. 139:7 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? 139:8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, 139:10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. 139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night," 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. 139:13 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 139:14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 139:16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. 139:17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 139:18 I try to count them-- they are more than the sand; I come to the end-- I am still with you. 139:19 O that you would kill the wicked, O God, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me-- 139:20 those who speak of you maliciously, and lift themselves up against you for evil! 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. 139:24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.