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Psalms 139

David marvels that God knows him completely: when he sits and rises, his thoughts and his words before he speaks. There is nowhere to flee from God's presence. God formed him in his mother's womb, where all his members were written in God's book. He ends asking God to search his heart.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1God knows you completely.
  • Verse 14You were made with wonder and care.
  • Verse 23An invitation for God to search the heart.

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.SelectedPsalms 139:1Ask

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.SelectedPsalms 139:2Ask

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.SelectedPsalms 139:3Ask

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.SelectedPsalms 139:4Ask

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.SelectedPsalms 139:5Ask

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.SelectedPsalms 139:6Ask

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?SelectedPsalms 139:7Ask

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.SelectedPsalms 139:8Ask

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;SelectedPsalms 139:9Ask

Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.SelectedPsalms 139:10Ask

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.SelectedPsalms 139:11Ask

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.SelectedPsalms 139:12Ask

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.SelectedPsalms 139:13Ask

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.SelectedPsalms 139:14Ask

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.SelectedPsalms 139:15Ask

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.SelectedPsalms 139:16Ask

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!SelectedPsalms 139:17Ask

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.SelectedPsalms 139:18Ask

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.SelectedPsalms 139:19Ask

For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.SelectedPsalms 139:20Ask

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?SelectedPsalms 139:21Ask

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.SelectedPsalms 139:22Ask

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:SelectedPsalms 139:23Ask

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.SelectedPsalms 139:24Ask

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