Psalm 139

Question 1

Psalm 139:1

Answer 1

You have searched me, Lord,

and you know me.

Question 2

Psalm 139:2

Answer 2

You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar.

Question 3

Psalm 139:3

Answer 3

You discern my going out and my lying down;

you are familiar with all my ways.

Question 4

Psalm 139:4

Answer 4

Before a word is on my tongue

you, Lord, know it completely.

Question 5

Psalm 139:5

Answer 5

You hem me in behind and before,

and you lay your hand upon me.

Question 6

Psalm 139:6

Answer 6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

Question 7

Psalm 139:7

Answer 7

Where can I go from your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?

Question 8

Psalm 139:8

Answer 8

If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

Question 9

Psalm 139:9

Answer 9

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle on the far side of the sea,

Question 10

Psalm 139:10

Answer 10

even there your hand will guide me,

your right hand will hold me fast.

Question 11

Psalm 139:11

Answer 11

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

and the light become night around me,”

Question 12

Psalm 139:12

Answer 12

even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

Question 13

Psalm 139:13

Answer 13

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb

Question 14

Psalm 139:14

Answer 14

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

Question 15

Psalm 139:15

Answer 15

My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Question 16

Psalm 139:16

Answer 16

Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

Question 17

Psalm 139:17

Answer 17

How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!

How vast is the sum of them!

Question 18

Psalm 139:18

Answer 18

Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.

Question 19

Psalm 139:19

Answer 19

If only you, God, would slay the wicked!

Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!

Question 20

Psalm 139:20

Answer 20

They speak of you with evil intent;

your adversaries misuse your name.

Question 21

Psalm 139:21

Answer 21

Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,

and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?

Question 22

Psalm 139:22

Answer 22

I have nothing but hatred for them;

I count them my enemies.

Question 23

Psalm 139:23

Answer 23

Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Question 24

Psalm 139:24

Answer 24

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.