Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Psalm 139

O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit:
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,"
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are you works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there were none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O GOD!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I and I am still with you.

O that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain!
 Do I not hate those who rise up against you?
I hat them wiht complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.

Search me, O GOD, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!

4 comments:

pymgirl said...

Just the reminder I needed today...

Julia said...

A reminder I needed as well...

Ruth Fraser Davis said...

Always the perfect reminder, not merely who we are, but Whose we are by thought, love and design!

"...even there...." - the Hidden Hand that leads, guides, holds. This from childhood has been comfort.

Tweetums said...

So glad this blessed you all as well!