Ps.139.1
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
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
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
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.
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You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
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You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my every thought when far away.
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Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
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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.
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You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
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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
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Ps.139.4
You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.
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Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
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For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
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You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.
Ps.139.5
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
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.
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You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
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You both precede and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
Ps.139.6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Ps.139.6
This is too much, too wonderful--I can't take it all in!
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to know!
Ps.139.7
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Ps.139.7
Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?
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Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
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I can never escape from your spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
Ps.139.8
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
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.
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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 take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
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If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,
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If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
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If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
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If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
Ps.139.10
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Ps.139.10
You'd find me in a minute--you're already there waiting!
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even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.
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even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
Ps.139.11
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Ps.139.11
Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!"
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If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
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If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me," Even the night shall be light about me;
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I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night--
Ps.139.12
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Ps.139.12
It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
Ps.139.12
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
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Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
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but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you.
Ps.139.13
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Ps.139.13
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb.
Ps.139.13
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
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For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
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You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.
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I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Ps.139.14
I thank you, High God--you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration--what a creation!
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Ps.139.14
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
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Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it.
Ps.139.15
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Ps.139.15
You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
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My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
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My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
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Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Ps.139.16
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
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your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
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Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.
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You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
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How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Ps.139.17
Your thoughts--how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them!
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How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
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How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
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How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable!
Ps.139.18
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Ps.139.18
I couldn't even begin to count them--any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
Ps.139.18
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
Ps.139.18
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
Ps.139.18
I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up in the morning, you are still with me!
Ps.139.19
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Ps.139.19
And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers--out of here!-
Ps.139.19
If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
Ps.139.19
Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
Ps.139.19
O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
Ps.139.20
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Ps.139.20
all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations.
Ps.139.20
They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
Ps.139.20
For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Ps.139.20
They blaspheme you; your enemies take your name in vain.
Ps.139.21
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Ps.139.21
See how I hate those who hate you, GOD, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;
Ps.139.21
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
Ps.139.21
Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
Ps.139.21
O LORD, shouldn't I hate those who hate you? Shouldn't I despise those who resist you?
Ps.139.22
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Ps.139.22
I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies!
Ps.139.22
I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
Ps.139.22
I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
Ps.139.22
Yes, I hate them with complete hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
Ps.139.23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Ps.139.23
Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;
Ps.139.23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Ps.139.23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties;
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Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
Ps.139.24
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ps.139.24
See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong--then guide me on the road to eternal life.
Ps.139.24
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Ps.139.24
And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
Ps.139.24
Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
