School of the Word
Praying with the Psalms 1/6: Psalm 139
by Sr. Leticia
By Sr. Leticia// Passages
“Yahweh, you have searched me and you know me, you know when I sit, when I rise, you understand my thoughts from afar.
You watch when I walk or lie down, you know every detail of my conduct. A word is not yet on my tongue before you, Yahweh, know all about it. You fence me in, behind and in front, you have laid your hand upon me. Such amazing knowledge is beyond me, a height to which I cannot attain.
Where shall I go to escape your spirit? Where shall I flee from your presence? If I scale the heavens, you are there, if I lie flat in Sheol, there you are. If I speed away on the wings of the dawn, if I dwell beyond the ocean, even there your hand will be guiding me, your right hand holding me fast.
I will say, 'Let the darkness cover me, and the night wrap itself around me,' even darkness to you is not dark, and night is as clear as the day.
You created my inmost self, knit me together in my mother's womb. For so many marvels I thank you; a wonder am I, and all your works are wonders. You knew me through and through, my being held no secrets from you, when I was being formed in secret, textured in the depths of the earth. Your eyes could see my embryo. In your book all my days were inscribed, everyone that was fixed is there.
How hard for me to grasp your thoughts, how many, God, there are!
If I count them, they are more than the grains of sand; if I come to an end, I am still with you.”
Psalm 139
“Zion was saying, 'Yahweh has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me.'
Can a woman forget her baby at the breast, feel no pity for the child she has borne? Even if these were to forget, I shall not forget you.
Look, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, your ramparts are ever before me.”
Isaiah 49: 14-16
“Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, and each of us is necessary.”
Benedict XVI
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