Psalm 139:1-5
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Psalm 139
The Inescapable God
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.(A)
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.(B)
3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.(C)
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely.(D)
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.(E)
Psalm 139:12-17
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12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.(A)
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(B)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(C)
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(D)
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.[a]
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!(E)
Footnotes
- 139.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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