New American Standard Bible 2020

Psalms 139:2-23

2You 1know 2when I sit down and 3when I get up; You 4understand my thought from far away.3You 5 6scrutinize my 7path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.4 8Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, Lord, You 9know it all.5You have 10encircled me behind and in front, And 11placed Your hand upon me.6Such 12knowledge is 13too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot comprehend it.

7 14Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?8 15If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in 16Sheol, behold, 17You are there.9If I take up the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,10Even there Your hand will 18lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me.11If I say, “Surely the 19darkness will 20overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,”12Even 21darkness is not dark 22to You, And the night is as bright as the day. 23Darkness and light are alike to You.

13For You 24created my innermost parts; You 25wove me in my mother’s womb.14I will give thanks to You, because 26I am awesomely and wonderfully made; 27Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.15My 28 29frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret, And skillfully formed in the 30depths of the earth;16Your 31eyes have seen my formless substance; And in 32Your book were written All the 33days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

17How precious also are Your 34thoughts for me, God! How vast is the sum of them!18Were I to count them, they would 35outnumber the sand. When 36I awake, I am still with You.

19If only You would 37put the wicked to death, God; 38Leave me, 39you men of bloodshed.20For they 40speak 41against You wickedly, And Your enemies 42 43take Your name in vain.21Do I not 44hate those who hate You, Lord? And do I not 45loathe those who rise up against You?22I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.

23 46Search me, God, and know my heart; 47Put me to the test and know my anxious thoughts;

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Notes

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

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