Psalms 139:1-16

1For the music director: a psalm of David. Adonai, You searched me and know me.

2Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it. You discern my thinking from afar.

3You observe my journeying and my resting and You are familiar with all my ways.

4Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, Adonai, You know all about it.

5You hemmed me in behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

7Where can I go from Your Ruach? Where can I flee from Your presence?

8If I go up to heaven, You are there, and if I make my bed in Sheol, look, You are there too.

9If I take the wings of the dawn and settle on the other side of the sea,

10even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me.

11If I say: “Surely darkness covers me, night keeps light at a distance from me,”

12even darkness is not dark for You, and night is as bright as day— darkness and light are alike.

13For You have created my conscience. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14I praise You, for I am awesomely, wonderfully made! Wonderful are Your works— and my soul knows that very well.

15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16Your eyes saw me when I was unformed, and in Your book were written the days that were formed— when not one of them had come to be.