Psalm 139:1-17, 22-23 Domine, probasti Tone 2.1
4 You press upon me behind and / be-fore *
and lay your hand / up-on me.
5 Such knowledge is too wonderful / for me; *
it is so high that I cannot at- / tain to it.
6 Where can I go then from your / Spir-it? *
where can I flee from / your pre-sence?
7 If I climb up to heaven, you / are there; *
if I make the grave my bed, you are / there al-so.
8 If I take the wings of the / mor-ning *
and dwell in the uttermost parts / of the sea,
9 Even there your hand will / lead me *
and your right hand / hold me fast.
10 If I say, “Surely the darkness will co- / ver me, *
and the light around me / turn to night,”
11 Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as / the day; *
darkness and light to you are / both a-like.
12 For you yourself created my in- / most parts; *
you knit me together in my / mo-ther’s womb.
13 I will thank you because I am marvelous- / ly made; *
your works are wonderful, and I / know it well.
14 My body was not hidden / from you, *
while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths / of the earth.
15 Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb; all of them were written in / your book; *
they were fashioned day by day, when as yet there was / none of them.
16 How deep I find your thoughts, / O God! *
how great is the / sum of them!
17 If I were to count them, they would be more in number than / the sand; *
to count them all, my life span would need to / be like yours.
22 Search me out, O God, and know / my heart; *
try me and know my / rest-less thoughts.
23 Look well whether there be any wickedness / in me *
and lead me in the way that is e- / ver-las-ting.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy / Spir-it: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for e- / ver. A-men.
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