Psalms 139:4–16 · BSB
139:4
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
139:5
You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
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139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
139:7
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
139:8
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
139:9
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
139:10
even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
139:11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
139:12
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
139:13
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
139:14
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
139:15
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
139:16
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
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