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New American Standard Bible 1995

Psalms 139

God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

1O Lord, You have 1searched me and known me.2You 2know 3when I sit down and 4when I rise up; You 5understand my thought from afar.3You 67scrutinize my 8path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.49Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You 10know it all.5You have 11enclosed me behind and before, And 12laid Your hand upon me.6Such 13knowledge is 14too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

715Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?816If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in 17Sheol, behold, 18You are there.9If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,10Even there Your hand will 19lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.11If I say, “Surely the 20darkness will 21overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,”12Even the 22darkness is not dark 23to You, And the night is as bright as the day. 24Darkness and light are alike to You.

13For You 25formed my 26inward parts; You 27wove me in my mother’s womb.14I will give thanks to You, for 28I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 29Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.15My 3031frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the 32depths of the earth;16Your 33eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in 34Your book were all written The 35days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

17How precious also are Your 36thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!18If I should count them, they would 37outnumber the sand. When 38I awake, I am still with You.

19O that You would 39slay the wicked, O God; 40Depart from me, therefore, 41men of bloodshed.20For they 42speak 43against You wickedly, And Your enemies 4445take Your name in vain.21Do I not 46hate those who hate You, O Lord? And do I not 47loathe those who rise up against You?22I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.

2348Search me, O God, and know my heart; 49Try me and know my anxious thoughts;24And see if there be any 5051hurtful way in me, And 52lead me in the 53everlasting way.

Notes

  1. 1. Psalms 139:1 Ps 17:3; 44:21; Jer 12:3 ↩
  2. 2. Psalms 139:2 2 Kin 19:27 ↩
  3. 3. Psalms 139:2 Lit my sitting ↩
  4. 4. Psalms 139:2 Lit my rising ↩
  5. 5. Psalms 139:2 Ps 94:11; Is 66:18; Matt 9:4 ↩
  6. 6. Psalms 139:3 Lit winnow ↩
  7. 7. Psalms 139:3 Job 14:16; 31:4 ↩
  8. 8. Psalms 139:3 Or journeying ↩
  9. 9. Psalms 139:4 Lit For there is not ↩
  10. 10. Psalms 139:4 Heb 4:13 ↩
  11. 11. Psalms 139:5 Ps 34:7; 125:2 ↩
  12. 12. Psalms 139:5 Job 9:33 ↩
  13. 13. Psalms 139:6 Rom 11:33 ↩
  14. 14. Psalms 139:6 Job 42:3 ↩
  15. 15. Psalms 139:7 Jer 23:24 ↩
  16. 16. Psalms 139:8 Amos 9:2-4 ↩
  17. 17. Psalms 139:8 I.e. the nether world ↩
  18. 18. Psalms 139:8 Job 26:6; Prov 15:11 ↩
  19. 19. Psalms 139:10 Ps 23:2, 3 ↩
  20. 20. Psalms 139:11 Job 22:13 ↩
  21. 21. Psalms 139:11 Lit bruise; some commentators read cover ↩
  22. 22. Psalms 139:12 Job 34:22; Dan 2:22 ↩
  23. 23. Psalms 139:12 Lit from ↩
  24. 24. Psalms 139:12 1 John 1:5 ↩
  25. 25. Psalms 139:13 Ps 119:73; Is 44:24 ↩
  26. 26. Psalms 139:13 Lit kidneys ↩
  27. 27. Psalms 139:13 Job 10:11 ↩
  28. 28. Psalms 139:14 Some ancient versions read You are fearfully wonderful ↩
  29. 29. Psalms 139:14 Ps 40:5 ↩
  30. 30. Psalms 139:15 Lit bones were ↩
  31. 31. Psalms 139:15 Job 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5 ↩
  32. 32. Psalms 139:15 Ps 63:9 ↩
  33. 33. Psalms 139:16 Job 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5 ↩
  34. 34. Psalms 139:16 Ps 56:8 ↩
  35. 35. Psalms 139:16 Job 14:5 ↩
  36. 36. Psalms 139:17 Ps 40:5; 92:5 ↩
  37. 37. Psalms 139:18 Ps 40:5 ↩
  38. 38. Psalms 139:18 Ps 3:5 ↩
  39. 39. Psalms 139:19 Is 11:4 ↩
  40. 40. Psalms 139:19 Ps 6:8; 119:115 ↩
  41. 41. Psalms 139:19 Ps 5:6; 26:9 ↩
  42. 42. Psalms 139:20 Jude 15 ↩
  43. 43. Psalms 139:20 Or of ↩
  44. 44. Psalms 139:20 Some mss read lift themselves up against You ↩
  45. 45. Psalms 139:20 Ex 20:7; Deut 5:11 ↩
  46. 46. Psalms 139:21 2 Chr 19:2; Ps 26:5; 31:6 ↩
  47. 47. Psalms 139:21 Ps 119:158 ↩
  48. 48. Psalms 139:23 Job 31:6; Ps 26:2 ↩
  49. 49. Psalms 139:23 Ps 7:9; Prov 17:3; Jer 11:20; 1 Thess 2:4 ↩
  50. 50. Psalms 139:24 Lit way of pain ↩
  51. 51. Psalms 139:24 Ps 146:9; Prov 15:9; 28:10; Jer 25:5; 36:3 ↩
  52. 52. Psalms 139:24 Ps 5:8; 143:10 ↩
  53. 53. Psalms 139:24 Ps 16:11 ↩

Commentaries on Psalms 139

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