Psalm 139

¹Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

²Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

³Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;

⁴For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

⁵Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.

⁶O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

⁷Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?

⁸If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];

⁹[If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

¹¹And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;

¹²Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.

¹³For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

¹⁴I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.

¹⁵My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

¹⁶Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.