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Psalm 139
To nurture and maintain love, especially within the context of marriage
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<- PSALM 2039 ->
The All-Knowing
and Ever-present God
1 For the leader. A psalm of David.
1 O LORD, you have probed me, you know me:
2 you know when I sit and stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
3 My travels and my rest you mark;
with all my ways you are familiar.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
LORD, you know it all.
5 Behind and before you encircle me
and rest your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is beyond me,
far too lofty for me to reach.
7 Where can I hide from your spirit?
From your presence, where can I flee?
8 If I ascend to the heavens, you are there;
if I lie down in Sheol, you are there too.
9 If I fly with the wings of dawn and alight beyond the sea,
10 Even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely darkness shall hide me,
and night shall be my light" --
12 Darkness is not dark for you,
and night shines as the day.
Darkness and light are but one.
13 You formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, so wonderfully you made me;
wonderful are your works!
My very self you knew;
15 my bones were not hidden from you,
When I was being made in secret,
fashioned as in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes foresaw my actions;
in your book all are written down;
my days were shaped, before one came to be.
17 How precious to me are your designs,
O God; how vast the sum of them!
18 Were I to count,
they would outnumber the sands;
to finish, I would need eternity.
19 If only you would destroy the wicked,
O God, and the bloodthirsty would depart from me!
20 Deceitfully they invoke your name;
your foes swear faithless oaths.
21 Do I not hate, LORD, those who hate you?
Those who rise against you, do I not loathe?
22 With fierce hatred I hate them,
enemies I count as my own.
23 Probe me, God, know my heart;
try me, know my concerns.
24 See if my way is crooked,
then lead me in the ancient paths.
    
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