ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

139 O Lord, you have p searched me and known me!
 2 You q know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you r discern my thoughts from afar.
 3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
 4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, s you know it altogether.
 5 You t hem me in, behind and before,
and u lay your hand upon me.
 6 v Such knowledge is w too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

 7 x Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where y shall I flee from your presence?
 8 z If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
a If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
 9 If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall b lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, c “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
12 d even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you e formed my inward parts;
you f knitted me together in my mother's womb.