{"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/web/psalms/139","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:39:21.575Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":139,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":138,"nextChapter":140,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":24},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If I say, |Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;|"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 139 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 139](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/139)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/139 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}