Psalm 139

Question 1

Verse 1

Answer 1

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

Question 2

Verse 2

Answer 2

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Question 3

Verse 3

Answer 3

You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Question 4

Verse 4

Answer 4

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

Question 5

Verse 5

Answer 5

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Question 6

Verse 6

Answer 6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Question 7

Verse 7

Answer 7

Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

Question 8

Verse 8

Answer 8

If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

Question 9

Verse 9

Answer 9

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Question 10

Verse 10

Answer 10

even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Question 11

Verse 11

Answer 11

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”

Question 12

Verse 12

Answer 12

even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

Question 13

Verse 13

Answer 13

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

Question 14

Verse 14

Answer 14

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]

Wonderful are your works my soul knows it very well.

Question 15

Verse 15

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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Answer 16

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Question 17

Verse 17

Answer 17

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

Question 18

Verse 18

Answer 18

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Question 19

Verse 19

Answer 19

Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!

Question 20

Verse 20

Answer 20

They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.

Question 21

Verse 21

Answer 21

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

Question 22

Verse 22

Answer 22

I hate them with complete hatred;

I count them my enemies.

Question 23

Verse 23

Answer 23

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

Question 24

Verse 24

Answer 24

And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!