{"reader_html":"<h1 class=\"chapter-heading\">The Book of Psalms<span class=\"chapter-label\">Chapter 139<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><span class=\"dropcap-wrap\" data-v=\"1\"><span class=\"dropcap\" title=\"Compare verse 1 across translations\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,1,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">O<\/span> lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"2\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,2,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">2<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"3\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,3,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">3<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"4\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,4,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">4<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"5\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,5,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">5<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"6\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,6,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">6<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"7\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,7,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">7<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"8\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,8,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">8<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"9\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,9,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">9<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"10\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,10,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">10<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"11\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,11,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">11<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"12\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,12,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">12<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"13\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,13,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">13<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother&#039;s womb.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"14\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,14,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">14<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"15\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,15,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">15<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"16\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,16,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">16<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"17\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,17,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">17<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"18\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,18,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">18<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"19\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,19,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">19<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"20\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,20,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">20<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"21\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,21,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">21<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"22\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,22,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">22<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"23\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,23,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">23<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"verse-para\"><sup class=\"vnum\" data-v=\"24\" onclick=\"loadParallel(1,19,139,24,&quot;Psalms&quot;)\">24<\/sup><span class=\"vtext\">And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-nav\"><a href=\"\/kjv\/1\/19\/138\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">&lsaquo; Previous<\/a><a href=\"\/kjv\/1\/19\/140\" class=\"nav-btn-lg nav-ajax\">Next &rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","page_title":"The Book of Psalms, Chapter 139 — King James Version","book_title":"The Book of Psalms","toolbar_title":"The Book of Psalms — Ch. 139","prev_url":"\/kjv\/1\/19\/138","next_url":"\/kjv\/1\/19\/140","tid":1,"book_id":19,"chapter":139,"num_chapters":150,"trans":"KJV","is_rtl":false,"strongs_data":{},"bsb_glosses":{},"book_name":"Psalms","canonical_url":"https:\/\/accept.gift\/kjv\/1\/19\/139","meta_desc":"O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 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