Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

139 Lord, you have examined me;
    you have known me.
² You know when I rest^[a]
    and when I am active.^[b]
You understand what I am thinking
    when I am distant from you.^[c]
3 You scrutinize my life and my rest;^[d]
    you are familiar with all of my ways.
⁴ Even before I have formed a word with my tongue,
    you, Lord, know it completely!
⁵ You encircle me from back to front,
    placing your hand upon me.
⁶ Knowledge like this is too amazing for me.
    It is beyond my reach,
        and I cannot fathom it.

⁷ Where can I flee from your spirit?
    Or where will I run from your presence?
⁸ If I rise to heaven, there you are!
    If I lay down with the dead,^[e] there you are!
⁹ If I take wings with the dawn
    and settle down on the western horizon^[f]
10 your hand will guide me there, too,
    while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me.
¹¹ If I say, “Darkness will surely conceal me,
    and the light around me will become night,”^[g]
12 even darkness isn’t dark to you,
    darkness and light are the same to you.^[h]

44 “But now listen, Jacob my servant
    and Israel whom I have chosen:
² This what the Lord says, the one who made you,
    formed you from the womb,
        and who will help^[a] you:
“Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant,
    and Jeshurun,^[b] whom I have chosen.
³ For I’ll pour water upon thirsty ground
    and streams on parched land.
So^[c] will I pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
    and my blessing upon your descendants.
⁴ They’ll^[d] spring up as among^[e] the green grass,
    like willows by flowing streams.
⁵ One will say, ‘I belong to the Lord,’
    and another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
still another will have written on his hand, ‘the Lord’s,’
    and will adopt the name of Israel.”