precious words

"O LORD, you have searched me and known me!

You discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold,

O LORD you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Or where shall I flee from your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

If I take the wings of the morning

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

even there your hand shall lead me, your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light about me be night,"

even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day,

for darkness is as light with you.

Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written,

every one of them, the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there were none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake, and I am still with you.

Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!

And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting!"

{from psalm 139}