--- title: "Psalms 139:1-18 KJV - \"O LORD, thou hast searched me, and kno...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off\" — Read Psalms 139:1-18 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/psalms/139/1-18" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/139)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/139)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/139) Audio ## Psalms 139:1-18 in Context (Verses 1–21 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/psalms/139/1) O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known *me*. [2 ](/kjv/psalms/139/2) Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. [3 ](/kjv/psalms/139/3) Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted *with* all my ways.* [4 ](/kjv/psalms/139/4) For *there is* not a word in my tongue, *but*, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. [5 ](/kjv/psalms/139/5) Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. [6 ](/kjv/psalms/139/6) *Such* knowledge *is* too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot *attain* unto it. [7 ](/kjv/psalms/139/7) Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? [8 ](/kjv/psalms/139/8) If I ascend up into heaven, thou *art* there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou *art there*. [9 ](/kjv/psalms/139/9) *If* I take the wings of the morning, *and* dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; [10 ](/kjv/psalms/139/10) Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. [11 ](/kjv/psalms/139/11) If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. [12 ](/kjv/psalms/139/12) Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light *are* both alike *to thee*.** [13 ](/kjv/psalms/139/13) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. [14 ](/kjv/psalms/139/14) I will praise thee; for I am fearfully *and* wonderfully made: marvellous *are* thy works; and *that* my soul knoweth right well.* [15 ](/kjv/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.* [16 ](/kjv/psalms/139/16) Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all *my members* were written, *which* in continuance were fashioned, when *as yet there was* none of them.** [17 ](/kjv/psalms/139/17) How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! [18 ](/kjv/psalms/139/18) *If* I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. [19 ](/kjv/psalms/139/19) Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. [20 ](/kjv/psalms/139/20) For they speak against thee wickedly, *and* thine enemies take *thy name* in vain. [21 ](/kjv/psalms/139/21) Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 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