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Psalms 139

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1Lord, You have searched me and known me. ✦ 2You know when I sit down and when I get up; You understand my thought from far away. ✦ 3You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. ✦ 4Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, Lord, You know it all. ✦ 5You have encircled me behind and in front, And placed Your hand upon me. ✦ 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot comprehend it. ✦ 7¶Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? ✦ 8If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You 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 lead me, And Your right hand will take hold of me. ✦ 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,” ✦ 12Even darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. ✦ 13¶For You created my innermost parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. ✦ 14I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. ✦ 15My frame was not hidden from You When I was made in secret, And skillfully formed in the depths of the earth; ✦ 16Your eyes have seen my formless substance; And in Your book were written All the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. ✦ 17¶How precious also are Your thoughts for me, God! How vast is the sum of them! ✦ 18Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. ✦ 19¶If only You would put the wicked to death, God; Leave me, you men of bloodshed. ✦ 20For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain. ✦ 21Do I not hate those who hate You, Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? ✦ 22I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies. ✦ 23¶Search me, God, and know my heart; Put me to the test and know my anxious thoughts; ✦ 24And see if there is any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. ✦

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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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