1 LORD, you have examined me; you have known me. ISV — Psalm 139:1
2 You know when I rest a139:2 Lit. know my sitting and when I am active. b139:2 Lit. and my rising You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you. c139:2 Or thinking from a distance ISV — Psalm 139:2
3 You scrutinize my life and my rest; d139:3 Or death; Lit. my path and my lying down you are familiar with all of my ways. ISV — Psalm 139:3
4 Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely! ISV — Psalm 139:4
5 You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me. ISV — Psalm 139:5
6 Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it. ISV — Psalm 139:6
7 Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence? ISV — Psalm 139:7
8 If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, e139:8 Lit. to Sheol; i.e. the realm of the dead there you are! ISV — Psalm 139:8
9 If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon f139:9 Lit. the end of the sea ISV — Psalm 139:9
10 your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me. ISV — Psalm 139:10
11 If I say, “Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night,” g139:11 So MT LXX; DSS 11QPs reads And let me say, “Surely darkness conceals and night has girded me about.” ISV — Psalm 139:11
12 even darkness isn’t dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you. h139:12 The Heb. lacks to you ISV — Psalm 139:12
13 It was you who formed my internal organs, i139:13 Lit. my kidneys fashioning me within my mother’s womb. ISV — Psalm 139:13
14 I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! j139:14 So DSS 11QPsa Syr Hieronymus; MT LXX read because I am fearfully and wonderfully made Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. ISV — Psalm 139:14
15 My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth. ISV — Psalm 139:15
16 Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled k139:16 The Heb. lacks scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet. l139:16 The Heb. lacks had come yet ISV — Psalm 139:16
17 How deep m139:17 Or precious are your thoughts, God! How great is their number! ISV — Psalm 139:17
18 Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you. ISV — Psalm 139:18
19 God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that n139:19 So LXX DSS 11QPsa; MT reads and so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me, ISV — Psalm 139:19
20 who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain. ISV — Psalm 139:20
21 I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ? ISV — Psalm 139:21
22 With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies. ISV — Psalm 139:22
23 Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts. ISV — Psalm 139:23
24 See if there is any offensive tendency o139:24 Lit. way in me, and lead me in the eternal way. ISV — Psalm 139:24