Comment – He who writes Psalm 139 is aware that God is present and knows him fully. He asks the Lord to place his hand on him, to let himself go to his plan full of wisdom that does not understand but desires.
Psalm 139 complete
[1] To the choir master. Di Davide. Psalm. Lord, you scrutinize me and you know me,
[2] you know when I sit and when I get up. Penetrate my thoughts from afar,
[3] you look at me when I walk and when I rest. All my ways are known to you;
[4] my word is not yet on the tongue and you, Lord, already know it all.
[5] Behind and in front of you surround me and place your hand on me.
[6] Wonderful for me, your wisdom, too high, and I do not understand it.
[7] Where to go away from your spirit, where to escape from your presence?
[8] If I go up to heaven, you are there, if I go down to the underworld, there you are.
[9] If I take the wings of the dawn to live at the far end of the sea,
[10] there too your hand guides me and your right hand grabs me.
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[11] If I say: "At least the darkness will cover me and night be around me";
[12] even the darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as clear as the day; for you darkness is like light.
[13] It is you who created my bowels and woven me into my mother's womb.
[14] I praise you, because you made me like a prodigy; your works are wonderful, you know me completely.
[15] My bones were not hidden from you when I was formed in secret, woven into the depths of the earth.
[16] Your eyes have seen me shapeless and everything was written in your book; my days were fixed, when one did not yet exist.
[17] How deep your thoughts for me, how great their number, O God;
[18] if I count them they are more than sand, if I believe them finished, with you they are still.
[19] If God suppressed sinners! Get away from me, bloody men.
[20] They speak against you with deception: against you they arise with fraud.
[21] Do I not, Lord, hate those who hate you, and do I not detest your enemies?
[22] I detest them with relentless hatred as if they were my enemies.
[23] Look at me, God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts:
[24] see if I walk a way of lies and guide me on the way of life.
