Psalm 139 — Legacy Standard Bible

Where Can I Go from Your Spirit?

139

For the choir director. Of David. A Psalm.

O Yahweh, You have ^asearched me and known me.²You ^aknow ¹when I sit down and ²when I rise up;You ^bunderstand my thought from afar.³You ¹^,^ascrutinize my ²path and my lying down,And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.⁴¹Even before there is a word on my tongue,Behold, O Yahweh, You ^aknow it all.⁵You have ^aenclosed me behind and before,And You have ^bput Your hand upon me.⁶Such ^aknowledge is ^btoo wonderful for me;It is too high, I cannot attain to it.⁷^aWhere can I go from Your Spirit?Or where can I flee from Your presence?⁸^aIf I ascend to heaven, You are there;If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, ^bYou are there.⁹If I lift up the wings of the dawn,If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,¹⁰Even there Your hand will ^alead me,And Your right hand will lay hold of me.¹¹If I say, “Surely the ^adarkness will ^bbruise me,And the light around me will be night,”¹²Even the ^adarkness is not too dark for You,And the night is as bright as the day.^bDarkness and light are alike to You.¹³For You ^aformed my ¹inward parts;You ^bwove me in my mother’s womb.¹⁴I will give thanks to You, for ¹I am fearfully and wonderfully made;^aWonderful are Your works,And my soul knows it very well.¹⁵My ¹^,^aframe was not hidden from You,When I was made in secret,And ^bintricately woven in the ^cdepths of the earth;¹⁶Your ^aeyes have seen my unshaped substance;And in ^bYour book all of them were writtenThe ^cdays that were formed for me,When as yet there was not one of them.¹⁷How precious are Your ^athoughts to me, O God!How vast is the sum of them!¹⁸If I should count them, they would ^aoutnumber the sand.When ^bI awake, I am still with You.¹⁹Oh that You would ^aslay the wicked, O God!^bO ^cmen of bloodshed, depart from me.²⁰For they ^aspeak ¹against You wickedly,And Your enemies ²^,^btake Your name in vain.²¹Do I not ^ahate those who hate You, O Yahweh?And do I not ^brevile those who rise up against You?²²I hate them with the utmost hatred;They have become my enemies.²³^aSearch me, O God, and know my heart;^bTry me and know my anxious thoughts;²⁴And see if there be any ¹^,^ahurtful way in me,And ^blead me in the ^ceverlasting way.