New American Standard Bible 2020

Psalms 139:6-16

6Such 1knowledge is 2too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot comprehend it.

7 3Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?8 4If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in 5Sheol, behold, 6You 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 7lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me.11If I say, “Surely the 8darkness will 9overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,”12Even 10darkness is not dark 11to You, And the night is as bright as the day. 12Darkness and light are alike to You.

13For You 13created my innermost parts; You 14wove me in my mother’s womb.14I will give thanks to You, because 15I am awesomely and wonderfully made; 16Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.15My 17 18frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret, And skillfully formed in the 19depths of the earth;16Your 20eyes have seen my formless substance; And in 21Your book were written All the 22days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

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Notes

1. Psalms 139:6 Rom 11:33 ↩
2. Psalms 139:6 Job 42:3 ↩
3. Psalms 139:7 Jer 23:24 ↩
4. Psalms 139:8 Amos 9:2-4 ↩
5. Psalms 139:8 I.e., the netherworld ↩
6. Psalms 139:8 Job 26:6; Prov 15:11 ↩
7. Psalms 139:10 Ps 23:2, 3 ↩
8. Psalms 139:11 Job 22:13 ↩
9. Psalms 139:11 Lit bruise; some commentators cover ↩
10. Psalms 139:12 Job 34:22; Dan 2:22 ↩
11. Psalms 139:12 Lit from ↩
12. Psalms 139:12 1 John 1:5 ↩
13. Psalms 139:13 Ps 119:73; Is 44:24 ↩
14. Psalms 139:13 Job 10:11 ↩
15. Psalms 139:14 Some ancient versions You are fearfully wonderful ↩
16. Psalms 139:14 Ps 40:5 ↩
17. Psalms 139:15 Lit bones were ↩
18. Psalms 139:15 Job 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5 ↩
19. Psalms 139:15 Ps 63:9 ↩
20. Psalms 139:16 Job 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5 ↩
21. Psalms 139:16 Ps 56:8 ↩
22. Psalms 139:16 Job 14:5 ↩

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