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Psalm 139 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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PSALM 139
God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
2 ​​You know my sitting down and my rising up;
​​You understand my thought afar off.
3 ​​You comprehend my path and my lying down,
​​And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 ​​For there is not a word on my tongue,
​​But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
5 ​​You have hedged me behind and before,
​​And laid Your hand upon me.
6 ​​Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
​​It is high, I cannot attain it.
​
7 ​​Where can I go from Your Spirit?
​​Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 ​​If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
​​If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9 ​​If I take the wings of the morning,
​​And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 ​​Even there Your hand shall lead me,
​​And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 ​​If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall[fn] on me,”
​​Even the night shall be light about me;
12 ​​Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
​​But the night shines as the day;
​​The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
​
13 ​​For You formed my inward parts;
​​You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 ​​I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;[fn]
​​Marvelous are Your works,
​​And that my soul knows very well.
15 ​​My frame was not hidden from You,
​​When I was made in secret,
​​And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 ​​Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
​​And in Your book they all were written,
​​The days fashioned for me,
​​When as yet there were none of them.
​
17 ​​How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
​​How great is the sum of them!
18 ​​If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
​​When I awake, I am still with You.
​
19 ​​Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
​​Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
20 ​​For they speak against You wickedly;
​​Your enemies take Your name in vain.[fn]
21 ​​Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
​​And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 ​​I hate them with perfect hatred;
​​I count them my enemies.
​
23 ​​Search me, O God, and know my heart;
​​Try me, and know my anxieties;
24 ​​And see if there is any wicked way in me,
​​And lead me in the way everlasting.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Vulgate and Symmachus read cover.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read You are fearfully wonderful.
Septuagint and Vulgate read They take Your cities in vain.
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