{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/139","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T08:53:02.854Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":139,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":138,"nextChapter":140,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":24},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"O lord, you have searched me, and known me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For there is not a word in my tongue, but, see, O LORD, you know it altogether."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand on me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 139 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 139](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/139)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/139 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}