Ps 139 - Memorised!

This is such a beautiful psalm to memorise especially when I have been rather physically exhausted and weary. The Lord ministered to me through this Psalm which I memorised... let me attempt...

You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise. You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and lying down, You are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue, You know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in - behind and before. You have laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your Presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there. If I make my bed in the depth, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle in the far side of the sea, even there You are with me, Your right hand holds me fast.

If I'd say, surely the darkness will hide me, the night will be light around me. Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night will shine like the day, and darkness will be as light to You.

For You created me in my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depth of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book, before one of them came to being.

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God. How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count to, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with You.

If only You would slay the wicked; Away from me you blood thirsty men! They speak of You with evil intent, Your adversaries misuse Your name. Do I not hate those who hate You and abhor those who rise up against You? I have nothing but hatred for them, I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is an offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.

Amen!