Psalm 139
or Coverdale
Domine, probasti

¹Lord, you have searched me out and known me; *
you know my sitting down and my rising up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
²You trace my journeys and my resting-places *
and are acquainted with all my ways.
³Indeed, there is not a word on my lips, *
but you, O Lord, know it altogether.
⁴You press upon me behind and before *
and lay your hand upon me.
⁵Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; *
it is so high that I cannot attain to it.
⁶Where can I go then from your Spirit? *
where can I flee from your presence?
⁷If I climb up to heaven, you are there; *
if I make the grave my bed, you are there also.
⁸If I take the wings of the morning *
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
⁹Even there your hand will lead me *
and your right hand hold me fast.
¹⁰If I say, "Surely the darkness will cover me, *
and the light around me turn to night,"
¹¹Darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day; *
darkness and light to you are both alike.
¹²For you yourself created my inmost parts; *
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
¹³I will thank you because I am marvelously made; *
your works are wonderful, and I know it well.
¹⁴My body was not hidden from you, *
while I was being made in secret
and woven in the depths of the earth.
¹⁵Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb;
all of them were written in your book; *
they were fashioned day by day,
when as yet there was none of them.
¹⁶How deep I find your thoughts, O God! *
how great is the sum of them!
¹⁷If I were to count them, they would be more in number
than the sand; *
to count them all, my life span would need to
be like yours.
¹⁸Oh, that you would slay the wicked, O God! *
You that thirst for blood, depart from me.
¹⁹They speak despitefully against you; *
your enemies take your Name in vain.
²⁰Do I not hate those, O Lord, who hate you? *
and do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
²¹I hate them with a perfect hatred; *
they have become my own enemies.
²²Search me out, O God, and know my heart; *
try me and know my restless thoughts.
²³Look well whether there be any wickedness in me *
and lead me in the way that is everlasting.