UST PSA Chapter 139

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This is a note for the worship leader: This is a psalm of David.

Yahweh, you have thoroughly examined me,

and you know me completely.

2 You are the one who knows everything that I do, including when I sit and when I stand.

Even from far away, you know what I am thinking.

3 You have examined in detail all of my movements, from the time I go out until I lie down,

and you know intimately all of my habits.

4 Indeed, even before I say anything,

Yahweh, you already know everything that I am going to say!

5 You guard me on every side,

and you put your hand on me to protect me.

6 I am in awe that you know everything about me.

I am not able to comprehend that.

7 There is nowhere I could go to get away from your Spirit!

There is nowhere I could run to escape from your presence!

8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there.

Even if I lay down in the place where dead people go, you would be there!

9 If I rose up and flew to where the sun rises in the east,

or if I settled in the farthest place across the western sea,

10 even there you would guide me

and you would keep me secure.

11 Even if I said, “Let the darkness completely overwhelm me,

and the light around me turn to night,”

12 even darkness is not dark to you,

and the night shines as bright as the daytime.

For you, darkness and light are the same.

13 Indeed, you are the one who created my deepest inner parts;

you formed me inside my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because you made me in such an awesome and wonderful way.

Everything that you do is wonderful!

I know that very well.

15 You saw my bones when you made me in that hidden place.

As you wove me together deep in the womb,

16 you saw me before I had any form.

You wrote in your book each day that you had planned for me to live,

before any of those days had even started.

17 God, the things that you think are very valuable to me!

There are so many of them!

18 If I tried to count them, I would not be able to do that, because they are more than the grains of sand on the earth.

Every morning I wake up, I am still with you, and there are still more of them to count.

19 God, I wish that you would kill all wicked people!

I wish that all violent men would go away from me!

20 They say wicked things about you and plan evil things;

your enemies misuse your name.

21 Yahweh, I certainly hate those who hate you,

and I am disgusted with those who rise up against you.

22 I hate them completely;

I consider them to be my enemies.

23 God, I invite you to search me and to know what I am thinking;

please examine me and know what I worry about.

24 See if there is any harmful way in me,

and teach me to live in the way that lasts forever.