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Psalms 139

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. ✦ 2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. ✦ 3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. ✦ 4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. ✦ 5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. ✦ 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. ✦ 7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? ✦ 8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. ✦ 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, ✦ 10even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. ✦ 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— ✦ 12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You. ✦ 13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. ✦ 14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. ✦ 15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. ✦ 16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be. ✦ 17How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum! ✦ 18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You. ✦ 19O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men— ✦ 20who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain. ✦ 21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You? ✦ 22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies. ✦ 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. ✦ 24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting. ✦

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Ps 119 ·6Ps 139 ·5Ps 40 ·5Rev 2 ·4Ps 63 ·3Job 31 ·3Ps 74 ·3Ps 17 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 139 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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