Sunset on Drayton Harbor, WA.
O Lord, you have searched me and you know me
You know when I sit and when I rise
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down
You are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely
O Lord
You hem me in-behind and before
You have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me
too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Where can I flee from Your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, You are there
if I make my bed in the depths, You are there
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there Your had will guide me
Your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
Even the darkness will not be dark to You:
the night will shine like the day
for darkness is as light as You.
For You created my inmost being:
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in Your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
Psalms 139
