Psalms 139

1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:39 · 1Chr 28:9 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 17:3 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 139:23 · +6 more

2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.Cross-references: Gen 16:13 · 2Ki 6:12 · 2Ki 19:27 · Ps 56:8 · Ps 94:11 · Prov 15:3 · +8 more

3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.Cross-references: Gen 28:10 · 2Sam 8:14 · 2Sam 11:2 · 2Sam 11:27 · 2Sam 12:9 · Job 13:26 · +13 more

4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.Cross-references: Job 8:2 · Job 38:2 · Job 42:3 · Job 42:6 · Ps 19:14 · Ps 50:19 · +7 more

5You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.Cross-references: Ex 24:11 · Deut 33:27 · Job 9:33 · Job 23:8 · Ps 34:7 · Rev 1:17

6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.Cross-references: Job 11:7 · Job 26:14 · Job 42:3 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 40:5 · Prov 30:2 · +1 more

7Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?Cross-references: Jer 23:23 · Jonah 1:3 · Jonah 1:10 · Acts 5:9

8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!Cross-references: Job 26:6 · Job 34:21 · Prov 15:11 · Ezek 28:12 · Amos 9:2 · Obad 1:4 · +1 more

9If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,Cross-references: Ps 18:10 · Ps 19:6 · Ps 74:16 · Isa 24:14 · Mal 4:2

10even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.Cross-references: Ps 23:3 · Ps 63:8 · Ps 73:23 · Ps 143:9 · Isa 41:13

11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”Cross-references: Job 12:22 · Job 22:12 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 94:7 · Isa 29:15 · Jer 23:24

12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.Cross-references: Ex 14:20 · Ex 20:21 · Job 26:6 · Job 34:22 · Dan 2:22 · Heb 4:13

13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.Cross-references: Job 10:9 · Job 31:15 · Ps 22:9 · Ps 71:6 · Ps 119:73 · Isa 44:2 · +2 more

14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Job 5:9 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 92:4 · Ps 104:24 · Ps 111:2 · +1 more

15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.Cross-references: Ex 11:5 · Job 10:8 · Ps 63:9 · Ps 139:13 · Eccl 11:5 · Eph 4:9

16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.Cross-references: Ps 56:8 · Mal 3:16 · Rev 20:12

17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!Cross-references: Ps 31:19 · Ps 36:7 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 92:5 · Prov 8:31 · Isa 55:8 · +2 more

18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.Cross-references: Ps 3:5 · Ps 16:8 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 40:12 · Ps 63:6 · +4 more

19If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!Cross-references: Ps 5:6 · Ps 6:8 · Ps 9:17 · Ps 55:23 · Ps 64:7 · Ps 94:23 · +5 more

20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.Cross-references: Ex 20:7 · Job 21:14 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 73:8 · Ps 74:18 · Ps 74:22 · +4 more

21Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?Cross-references: 2Chr 19:2 · Ps 15:4 · Ps 26:5 · Ps 31:6 · Ps 119:136 · Ps 119:158 · +6 more

22I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.Cross-references: Ps 101:3 · Luke 14:26

23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.Cross-references: Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:16 · Job 31:6 · Ps 26:2 · Ps 139:1 · Prov 17:3 · +4 more

24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.Cross-references: Ps 5:8 · Ps 7:3 · Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:3 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 119:1 · +10 more