Psalm 139 -- Let's Look at the first four verses...

Psalm 139 is the foundational scripture for the Psalm 139 Woman. Let's begin by looking at the first four verses.

When you read these verses, what do they speak to your heart? What questions do they raise? What comments do you have? Please post a comment so we can start a discussion about this life-changing passage of scripture.

Ps 139:1-4

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

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Psalm 139 Woman... Laying the Foundation

by Audrea Winbush Lott

The Psalm 139 Woman? What is that all about? Take time to read and meditate on the 139th Psalm and see if you can find that answer. As you read them, feel free to leave comments, questions, and notes. As other Psalm 139 Women visit, they may be encouraged, empowered, and find a safe place to voice their concerns and comments.

Stay tuned... there is so much more to come!

Psalm 139 - New Living Translation

Psalms 139

139:1 For the choir director: A psalm of David.
O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.

2 You know when I sit down or stand up.You know my every thought when far away.

3 You chart the path ahead of me and tell me where to stop and rest.Every moment you know where I am.

4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.

5 You both precede and follow me.You place your hand of blessing on my head. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too great for me to know!
7 I can never escape from your spirit!I can never get away from your presence!

8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there.

9 If I ride the wings of the morning,if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

10 even there your hand will guide me,and your strength will support me.

11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night-

12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.To you the night shines as bright as day.Darkness and light are both alike to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!Your workmanship is marvelous--and how well I know it.

15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

16 You saw me before I was born.Every day of my life was recorded in your book.Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

17 How precious are your thoughts about me, O God!They are innumerable!

18 I can't even count them;they outnumber the grains of sand!And when I wake up in the morning,you are still with me!

19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!Get out of my life, you murderers!

20 They blaspheme you;your enemies take your name in vain.

21 O LORD, shouldn't I hate those who hate you?Shouldn't I despise those who resist you?

22 Yes, I hate them with complete hatred,for your enemies are my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my thoughts.

24 Point out anything in me that offends you,and lead me along the path of everlasting life. NLT

Psalm 139 - Amplified

Psalms 139

139:1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

O LORD, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me.
2 You know my downsitting and my uprising; You understand my thought afar off. [Matt 9:4; John 2:24,25.]
3 You sift and search out my path and my lying down, and You are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. [Heb 4:13.]
5 You have beset me and shut me in--behind and before, and You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 Your [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above me, I cannot reach it.
7 Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence?8 If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there. [Rom 11:33.]
9 If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me,
12 Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You. [Dan 2:22.]
13 For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery].
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! [Ps 40:5.]
18 If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.
19 If You would [only] slay the wicked, O God, and the men of blood depart from me-- [Isa 11:4.]
20 Who speak against You wickedly, Your enemies who take Your name in vain! [Jude 15.]
21 Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? And am I not grieved and do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred; they have become my enemies.
23 Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. AMP