psalm 139:1-18

¹ O Lord, you have searched me^(A)
    and you know^(B) me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;^(C)
    you perceive my thoughts^(D) from afar.
³ You discern my going out^(E) and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.^(F)
4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you know it completely,^(G) O Lord.

⁵ You hem me in^(H)—behind and before;
    you have laid your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,^(I)
    too lofty^(J) for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee^(K) from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens,^(L) you are there;
    if I make my bed^(M) in the depths,^[a] you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,^(N)
    your right hand^(O) will hold me fast.

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark^(P) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;^(Q)
    you knit me together^(R) in my mother’s womb.^(S)
14 I praise you^(T) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,^(U)
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made^(V) in the secret place.
When I was woven together^(W) in the depths of the earth,^(X)
16     your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained^(Y) for me
    were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

¹⁷ How precious to^[b] me are your thoughts,^(Z) O God!^(AA)
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,^(AB)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand.^(AC)
When I awake,^(AD)
    I am still with you.