English / ERV
Psalms 139
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1LORD, you have tested me, so you know all about me.
- 2You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts from far away.
- 3You know where I go and where I lie down. You know everything I do.
- 4LORD, you know what I want to say, even before the words leave my mouth.
- 5You are all around me—in front of me and behind me. I feel your hand on my shoulder.
- 6I am amazed at what you know; it is too much for me to understand.
- 7Your Spirit is everywhere I go. I cannot escape your presence.
- 8If I go up to heaven, you will be there. If I go down to the place of death, you will be there.
- 9If I go east where the sun rises or go to live in the west beyond the sea,
- 10even there you will take my hand and lead me. Your strong right hand will protect me.
- 11Suppose I wanted to hide from you and said, “Surely the darkness will hide me. The day will change to night and cover me.”
- 12Even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same.
- 13You formed the way I think and feel.[1] You put me together in my mother’s womb.
- 14I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was!
- 15You could see my bones grow as my body took shape, hidden in my mother’s womb.[2]