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Psalms 139:23

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

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Psalms 139 · Read in context

139:1

LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.

139:2

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

139:3

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

139:4

For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.

139:5

You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

139:6

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

139:7

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

139:8

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

139:9

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

139:10

even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

139:11

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

139:12

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

139:13

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

139:14

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

139:15

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

139:16

Your 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.

139:17

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

139:18

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

139:19

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

139:20

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

139:21

LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

139:22

I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

139:23

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

139:24

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

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