Twenty‑ninth Day: Morning Prayer
139Domine, probasti
1Lord, you have searched me out and known me; *
you know my sitting down and my rising up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
2You trace my journeys and my resting‑places *
and are acquainted with all my ways.
3Indeed, there is not a word on my lips, *
but you, O Lord, know it altogether.
4You press upon me behind and before *
and lay your hand upon me.
5Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; *
it is so high that I cannot attain to it.
6Where can I go then from your Spirit? *
where can I flee from your presence?
7If I climb up to heaven, you are there; *
if I make the grave my bed, you are there also.
8If I take the wings of the morning *
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
9Even there your hand will lead me *
and your right hand hold me fast.
10If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, *
and the light around me turn to night,”
11Darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day; *
darkness and light to you are both alike.
12For you yourself created my inmost parts; *
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
794Psalm 139
