Psalm 139

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

³But You know me, O Lord; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

¹⁰I, the Lord, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

²¹would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?

³You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

⁴But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

²⁷But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

²⁸But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

¹¹The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

⁴⁷But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.

³The eyes of the Lord are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

⁴Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

²⁰Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

²¹For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and the Lord examines all his paths.

¹⁰Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

¹¹On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

²⁷And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.

¹⁸If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

¹²For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

¹⁴May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

¹⁹You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

²⁰You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

³⁵The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

³⁶But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

³You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

¹³“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the Lord. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

¹⁴You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

⁷The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.

²⁷The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

¹⁷When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

⁸If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

⁹When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

¹¹But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.

³³Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

³³O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

⁷Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

⁸They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

¹⁴Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

²Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

³I have not learned wisdom, and I have no knowledge of the Holy One.

²³“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away?”

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

³Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.

¹⁰Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

²Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

³Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

²¹For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.

²²There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

²saying: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

⁴Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

¹¹Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord—how much more the hearts of men!

⁶Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

⁶it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

¹⁶The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

¹⁷You set all the boundaries of the earth; You made the summer and winter.

²“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

³He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.

¹³For I am the Lord your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

²³Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

⁸My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; I flee to You for refuge.

¹⁰Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

²²He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

⁷They say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

¹¹He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

¹²Arise, O Lord! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

¹²Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

¹³Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

¹⁵Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the Lord. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

²²He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.

²²There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

²¹And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

⁶Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

²⁰so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

⁷³Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments.

²This is the word of the Lord, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

¹⁵Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

⁹Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

¹⁰Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

⁹Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

¹⁰From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

²⁶Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

²⁷So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

²Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

²⁴How many are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

⁴For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

⁵How great are Your works, O Lord, how deep are Your thoughts!

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

⁹the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

⁵As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

¹³For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

⁸Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

⁹Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

⁹But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

⁸You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?

¹⁶At that time those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, and the Lord listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the Lord and honored His name.

¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

¹¹For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

⁸“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

⁵How great are Your works, O Lord, how deep are Your thoughts!

⁷How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

⁹and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.

¹⁰His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

⁵I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.

³You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

¹⁰He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

⁶When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

⁷For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.

⁸I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.

⁶You destroy those who tell lies; the Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.

⁴but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

¹⁷The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard my weeping.

¹⁷“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

¹⁵to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”

⁷You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

¹⁸Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Lord, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

¹Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

²The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the Lord and against His Anointed One:

⁸They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

⁹They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

²³Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

¹⁵⁸I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.

⁶I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the Lord I trust.

²I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.

²Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the wrath of the Lord is upon you.

⁵I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

⁶But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

²⁶“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

³I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

²Test me, O Lord, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

⁶let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

⁷so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

³A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

²Remember that these forty years the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

¹⁰Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

¹⁰I, the Lord, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

⁸Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He shows sinners the way.

⁹He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.

³²I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

¹¹You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

⁸Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.