Psalm 139:1-8

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Psalm 139

For the music leader. Of David. A song.

139 Lord, you have examined me.
    You know me.
²You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
    Even from far away, you comprehend my plans.
³You study my traveling and resting.
    You are thoroughly familiar with all my ways.
⁴There isn’t a word on my tongue, Lord,
    that you don’t already know completely.
⁵You surround me—front and back.
    You put your hand on me.
⁶That kind of knowledge is too much for me;
    it’s so high above me that I can’t reach it.

⁷Where could I go to get away from your spirit?
Where could I go to escape your presence?
⁸If I went up to heaven, you would be there.
If I went down to the grave,^[a] you would be there too!

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Psalm 139:8 Heb Sheol

Psalm 139:13-16

Common English Bible

¹³You are the one who created my innermost parts;
    you knit me together while I was still in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴I give thanks to you that I was marvelously set apart.
    Your works are wonderful—I know that very well.
¹⁵My bones weren’t hidden from you
    when I was being put together in a secret place,
    when I was being woven together in the deep parts of the earth.
¹⁶Your eyes saw my embryo,
    and on your scroll every day was written that was being formed for me,^[a]
    before any one of them had yet happened.^[b]