Psalm 139:1-17, 22-23 Domine, probasti
1 LORD, you have searched me out and known me; *
you know my sitting down and my rising up; you discern my thoughts from a-far.
2 You trace my journeys and my resting pla-ces *
and are acquainted with all my ways.
3 Indeed, there is not a word on my lips, *
but you, O LORD, know it al-to-ge-ther.
4 You press upon me behind and be-fore *
and lay your hand up-on me.
5 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; *
it is so high that I cannot at-tain to it.
6 Where can I go then from your Spir-it? *
where can I flee from your pres-ence?
7 If I climb up to heaven, you are there; *
if I make the grave my bed, you are there a-lso.
8 If I take the wings of the morn-ing *
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
9 Even there your hand will lead me *
and your right hand hold me fast.
10 If I say, “Surely the darkness will co–ver me, *
and the light around me turn to night,”
11 Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; *
darkness and light to you are both a-like
12 For you yourself created my inmost parts; *
you knit me together in my mo-ther’s womb.
13 I will thank you because I am marvelously made; *
your works are wonderful, and I know it well.
14 My body was not hidden from you, *
while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths of the earth.
15 Your 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.
16 How deep I find your thoughts, O God! *
how great is the sum of them!
17 If 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.
22 Search me out, O God, and know my heart; *
try me and know my rest-less thoughts.
23 Look well whether there be any wickedness in me *
and lead me in the way that is ev-er-last-ing.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spir-it: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. A-men.