Thursday, February 12, 2009

Psalm 139:1-18


"O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know my down sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off. You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to you. For you have possessed my reins; you have covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with you."

2 comments:

mamazee said...

Jess, i ordered the cd that has the best version of this psalm - i'll put it on my blog (the music) if i can figure out how - this is my favourite psalm of God to me ;)

jessica jespersen said...

mine too... it spoke to me
as a lonely pre-teen,
as a young adult struggling to care for a tantruming autistic pre-teen, (I prayed this psalm over her every night),
again when i had children
and then this week through a mother with pre-mature babies who is rediscovering this psalm
and another situation that reminded me again of how "fragile things" are in his strong but gentle hands.
His word is "living and active"...
-j