Ps.139.1

GOD, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.

Ps.139.1

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

Ps.139.1

O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

Ps.139.1

O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.

Ps.139.2

I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.

Ps.139.2

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

Ps.139.2

You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.

Ps.139.2

You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my every thought when far away.

Ps.139.3

You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight.

Ps.139.3

You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Ps.139.3

You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.

Ps.139.3

You chart the path ahead of me and tell me where to stop and rest. Every moment you know where I am.

Ps.139.4

You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.

Ps.139.4

Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

Ps.139.4

For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

Ps.139.4

You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.

Ps.139.5

I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too--your reassuring presence, coming and going.

Ps.139.5

You hem me in-behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

Ps.139.5

You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.

Ps.139.5

You both precede and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.

Ps.139.6

This is too much, too wonderful--I can't take it all in!

Ps.139.6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Ps.139.6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.

Ps.139.6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to know!

Ps.139.7

Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?

Ps.139.7

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

Ps.139.7

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

Ps.139.7

I can never escape from your spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

Ps.139.8

If I climb to the sky, you're there! If I go underground, you're there!

Ps.139.8

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

Ps.139.8

If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

Ps.139.8

If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there.

Ps.139.9

If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,

Ps.139.9

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

Ps.139.9

If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Ps.139.9

If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

Ps.139.10

You'd find me in a minute--you're already there waiting!

Ps.139.10

even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

Ps.139.10

Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.

Ps.139.10

even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.