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Psalms 139

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Part of Book V📖 Psalms introduction

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1O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. ✦ 2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. ✦ 3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. ✦ 4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. ✦ 5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. ✦ 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! ✦ 7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! ✦ 8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. ✦ 9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, ✦ 10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. ✦ 11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— ✦ 12but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. ✦ 13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. ✦ 14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. ✦ 15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. ✦ 16You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. ✦ 17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! ✦ 18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! ✦ 19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! ✦ 20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. ✦ 21O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? ✦ 22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. ✦ 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. ✦ 24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. ✦

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Concept OmnipresenceConcept Omniscience

Where this chapter connects

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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