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title: Psalm 139
slug: kjv/psalm-139
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:22:57.780Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known *me*.

**2 **Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

**3 **Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted *with* all my ways.

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

**5 **Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

**6 ***Such* knowledge *is* too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot *attain* unto it.

**7 **Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

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

**9 ***If* I take the wings of the morning, *and* dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

**10 **Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

**11 **If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

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

**13 **For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

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

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

**16 **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.

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

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

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

**20 **For they speak against thee wickedly, *and* thine enemies take *thy name* in vain.

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

**22 **I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

**23 **Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

**24 **And see if *there be any* wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.