138:0 ^[807] KJV Chapter [139] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David:

138:1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known:

138:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off:

138:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways:

138:4 For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether:

138:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me:

138:6 Such knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it:

138:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence:

138:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou:

138:9 If I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:

138:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me:

138:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me:

138:12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike:

138:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother' s womb:

138:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well:

138:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth:

138:16 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:

138:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them:

138:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee:

138:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men:

138:20 For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thine enemies take [thy name] in vain:

138:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee:

138:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies:

138:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

138:24 And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting: