Psalms 139

Psalms 139:5

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

O Lord, thy presence, and almighty power, encompasseth me, on all sides; and thou hast laid hold on me by thy hand, so as there is no starting from thee.

Psalms 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

The knowledge of thy great and glorious majesty and infiniteness, O Lord, is utterly past all human comprehension.

Psalms 139:9

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea.

If I could fly, as swift as the day, and remove myself into the utmost coasts of the world.

Psalms 139:14

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

If there were no other workmanship of thine, but that which thou hast shewed in framing the body, and inspiring the soul of man; O God, I can never praise and admire thee enough for this only work of thine.

Psalms 139:15

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eye, and thy hand, was upon that original matter, whereof I was framed secretly, in the womb of my mother: thou sawest all the marvellous proceedings of my conception and formation here below.

Psalms 139:16

And in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Thou takest notice and keepest record of all the members of this body of mine, which thou hast made; which, by several

Psalms 139:17

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

How wonderfully and inconceivably gracious are thy purposes towards me, O Lord! and how impossible is it for me, to express the specialties of thy bounty unto me!