Psalm 139:12-17

Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

12 d even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you e formed my inward parts;
you f knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 1
g Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 h My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in i the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your j book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your k thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

  1. Cross References
    Job 34:22
    There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
    Daniel 2:22
    He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:6
    Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
  3. Cross References
    Job 10:11
    You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 72:18
    Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
  5. Cross References
    Job 10:8 - 10
    Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.
    Ecclesiastes 11:5
    As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 63:9
    But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 56:8
    You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 92:5
    How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!
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