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Psalms 139

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. ✦ 2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. ✦ 3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. ✦ 4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. ✦ 5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. ✦ 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. ✦ 7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? ✦ 8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. ✦ 9If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ✦ 10Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. ✦ 11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. ✦ 12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. ✦ 13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. ✦ 14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. ✦ 15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ✦ 16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. ✦ 17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! ✦ 18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. ✦ 19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. ✦ 20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. ✦ 21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? ✦ 22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. ✦ 23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: ✦ 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and 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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    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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