Psalm 139  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ Where can I go from your spirit?
    Or where can I flee from your presence?^(G)
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
    if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.^(H)
9 If I take the wings of the morning
    and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand shall lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me fast.^(I)
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and night wraps itself around me,”^[a](J)
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is as bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.^(K)

¹³ For it was you who formed my inward parts;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.^(L)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
    Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.^(M)
15     My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.^(N)
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.^[b]
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!^(O)
18 I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
    I come to the end^[c]—I am still with you.

¹⁹ O that you would kill the wicked, O God,
    and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me—^(P)
20 those who speak of you maliciously
    and lift themselves up against you for evil!^[d](Q)
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
    And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?^(R)
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
    I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my thoughts.^(S)
24 See if there is any wicked^[e] way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.^[f](T)