Psalms 139

The Psalm That Knows Your Name — a note on this chapter.

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 139?

  1. All My Ways Are Known to You — CityAlight (2016) Psalms 139:1-12

    The song closely reflects the psalm's declaration that God knows every path a person takes. Its related images of divine guidance and darkness being unable to place someone beyond God's presence also correspond to this section of the psalm.

  2. Hold Me Fast (Psalm 139) — Aaron Shust (2023) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song closely follows Psalm 139's progression from God's intimate knowledge and universal presence to his formation of human life, the vastness of his thoughts, and a concluding prayer for moral examination and guidance.

  3. Abandon Ship — Behold the Beloved (2022) Psalms 139:1-10

    The song combines God's knowledge of hidden thoughts with the assurance that someone attempting to flee from him will still find him present. That distinctive pairing closely follows the opening movement of Psalm 139.

  4. Don’t You Give Up on Me — Brandon Lake (2022) Psalms 139:1-4

    God’s knowledge of the believer’s thoughts before they are formed closely paraphrases the psalmist’s description of divine knowledge extending to thoughts and unspoken words.

  5. Psalm 139 (LORD, You Have Searched Me) — Brian Sauvé (2021) Psalms 139:1-24

    The entire song closely renders Psalm 139 in sequence, following its movement from divine knowledge and omnipresence through formation in the womb and opposition to the wicked, then concluding with a request for examination and guidance.

  6. Surrounds Me — Hillsong Worship (2021) Psalms 139:1-3

    The opening verse closely follows the psalm’s language of God searching and knowing a person’s heart, thoughts, conduct, and paths. Its appeal to divine knowledge combines the psalm’s opening description with its concluding request for examination.

  7. Anxious Heart — Jeremy Camp (2021) Psalms 139:1-5

    The bridge joins God's complete knowledge of the singer with the image of being surrounded by his presence, closely reflecting the psalmist's account of being fully known and enclosed by God.

  8. Seen — Tauren Wells, Katie Torwalt (2022) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song closely follows Psalm 139's distinctive combination of God knowing a person inwardly, perceiving unspoken words, continually thinking of them, and remaining present in every distance and depth.

  9. Loved By Love — Zahriya Zachary (2025) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song closely parallels the psalmist's conviction that God already knows every concealed thought and truth, while also presenting God as the one who formed the speaker's innermost being.

  10. You Know Everything (Psalm 139) - Live — Shane & Shane & Kingdom Kids (2022) Psalms 139:1-12

    The song closely follows the psalm's descriptions of God searching and knowing a person, discerning thoughts and speech in advance, observing ordinary movements, and remaining present everywhere.

  11. Moyongcwele — Nontokozo Mkhize (2024) Psalms 139:1-3

    The song describes God as knowing everything about the worshipers, including their rising and remaining. This closely follows the psalmist's account of God knowing his sitting, rising, and every path.

  12. Imposter (If Only) — Aklesso (2025) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song expresses a deep sense of being known by God, resonating with the themes found in Psalm 139, where the psalmist reflects on God's intimate knowledge of our thoughts and struggles.

  13. Slower I Go (Live) — SEU Worship, Chelsea Plank (2024) Psalms 139:1

    The prayer asking God to search and know the speaker directly echoes the opening and closing petitions of Psalm 139.

  14. You already like me. — Citizens (2025) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song's emphasis on being completely known by God and having no need to hide closely parallels David's meditation on God's intimate knowledge and inescapable presence.

  15. 139 — Jonathan Ogden (2025) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song reflects the themes of God's intimate knowledge of individuals, paralleling the sentiments expressed in Psalm 139, where the psalmist acknowledges that God knows their thoughts and actions even before they are expressed.

  16. Wonderful, Wonderful Lord (Ps 139) — Tenielle Neda & Rothbury (2025) Psalms 139:1-4

    The song directly quotes phrases from Psalm 139, emphasizing God's knowledge of the speaker's actions and thoughts.

  17. Just As I Am (Live) — Lakewood Music & Jeremiah Woods (2024) Psalms 139:1-12

    The song emphasizes that God fully knows the worshiper's inner life, including what is concealed, while continuing to draw the person into his presence. This closely reflects the psalmist's awareness of being completely searched, known, and seen by God.

  18. Comfort - Live — Mosaic MSC (2022) Psalms 139:2-4

    The opening presents God as knowing a person’s thoughts and intended expression before they are communicated, closely reflecting the psalm’s account of divine foreknowledge.

  19. Wait — Phil Wickham (2023) Psalms 139:5-10

    The song closely follows the psalm's depiction of God enclosing the worshiper from behind and before and remaining present across the heights and the farthest reaches of the sea.

  20. Love Note (feat. Abbie Gamboa) — UPPERROOM & Abbie Gamboa (2021) Psalms 139:5-10

    The repeated spatial directions portray God as surrounding the beloved and present wherever they might go, closely matching Psalm 139's account of being enclosed by God and unable to escape His presence.

  21. MORE THAN A FEELING — Forrest Frank (2024) Psalms 139:7-10

    The assurance that God remains present wherever the singer goes closely parallels the psalmist's declaration that no destination can place him beyond God's presence and guidance.

  22. Mountains and Mundane — Gable Price and Friends (2024) Psalms 139:7-10

    The repeated idea that the speaker cannot run beyond God's reach, together with God's presence across contrasting locations and circumstances, closely parallels the psalmist's recognition that there is nowhere he can flee from God.

  23. Your Love Is Everywhere — Hannah Kerr (2024) Psalms 139:7-12

    The song combines God's presence everywhere with the conviction that even profound darkness cannot conceal or exclude that presence, closely reflecting this psalm's meditation on divine omnipresence.

  24. My Promised Land — Josiah Queen (2024) Psalms 139:7-8

    The bridge directly follows the psalm’s question about escaping God’s Spirit and its declaration that God remains present even in Sheol.

  25. Landslide — Rita Springer (2020) Psalms 139:7-12

    The song's language of being unable to hide or travel beyond God's reach, together with divine light overcoming distance, closely parallels the psalmist's meditation on God's inescapable presence.

  26. Wherever I Go — Ellie Holcomb (2025) Psalms 139:7-10

    The lyrics convey the idea that there is nowhere one can go without God's presence, paralleling the message in Psalm 139 about God's omnipresence and guidance in all circumstances.

  27. In The Room (feat. Tasha Cobbs Leonard) — Maverick City Music & Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore & Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2023) Psalms 139:7-8

    The bridge closely follows the psalmist's questions about fleeing God's Spirit and presence, followed by the contrast between ascending to heaven and making one's bed in Sheol.

  28. Everywhere — Todd Galberth & Naomi Raine (2025) Psalms 139:7-12

    The bridge directly adopts the psalmist's rhetorical questions about fleeing from God's Spirit and hiding from his presence. The later references to the realm of the dead and the depths of the earth further identify Psalm 139 as the source.

  29. Love After Hurt — Trevor Jackson & ONE HOUSE & Annatoria (2024) Psalms 139:7-10

    The singer's inability to escape God's presence closely reflects the psalmist's recognition that God remains present wherever he goes.

  30. Irresponsible — J. Monty & JUDAH. (2021) Psalms 139:7-10

    The song closely follows the psalm’s sequence of attempting to flee God, ascending to heaven, and descending to the realm of the dead, only to find God present and pursuing there as well.

  31. You Never Let Go — John Van Deusen (2025) Psalms 139:7-10

    The bridge closely follows David's questions about fleeing God's presence and depicts God remaining present in both the heights and the depths, sustaining and holding the speaker.

  32. Rediscovery — Zahriya Zachary (2025) Psalms 139:7-10

    The bridge closely follows the psalmist's rhetorical search for a place beyond God's presence, concluding that God is present everywhere.

  33. Carry Me Home — TAYA (2022) Psalms 139:7-10

    The song describes heaven, earth, and great distance as incapable of concealing the singer from God's pursuing presence. This closely parallels the psalmist's recognition that no destination lies beyond God's presence and guiding hand.

  34. Distance — Dan Bremnes (2026) Psalms 139:7-12

    The combined imagery of attempting to flee, crossing immense distance, and being found by God in darkness closely parallels the psalmist's realization that neither remoteness nor darkness can place anyone beyond God's presence.

  35. Nowhere Your Love Won't Go — Megan Woods (2025) Psalms 139:7-10

    The song closely echoes the psalmist's conviction that no destination, height, depth, or darkness can escape God's presence and reaching hand.

  36. Why — Elevation Worship (2022) Psalms 139:8

    The bridge uses Psalm 139's distinctive image of making one's bed in the realm of the dead. As in the psalm, the image emphasizes that even the deepest place of estrangement or misery cannot escape God's presence.

  37. evergreen love — Strings and Heart (2024) Psalms 139:8-10

    The opening verse closely follows the psalm's sequence of descending to the depths, rising with the dawn, settling beyond the sea, and still being reached and held by God.

  38. Where Your Heart Is — AWAKE84 (2024) Psalms 139:9-10

    The combined imagery of traveling to the sea's farthest depths while remaining guided by God's hand closely reflects the psalmist's assurance that God's hand leads him even beyond the sea.

  39. Same God — Hannah Kerr (2021) Psalms 139:11-12

    The claim that darkness is light to God closely paraphrases the psalm's assertion that darkness cannot conceal anyone from him and is as bright as light in his sight.

  40. Just Can't Stop My Hallelujahs — Avalon (2020) Psalms 139:13-16

    The song closely reflects the psalm's account of God knowing a person before birth, forming that life, and recording its days in advance.

  41. Canvas and Clay — Building 429 (2020) Psalms 139:13-16

    The opening describes God personally forming the narrator in the womb, knowing him before birth, and making him wonderfully. These combined details unmistakably draw from the psalmist's meditation on prenatal formation and divine knowledge.

  42. Intentionally Crafted — Kelsey Breedlove (2023) Psalms 139:13-14

    The bridge directly reproduces Psalm 139:14's description of a person as God's marvelous workmanship. The surrounding emphasis on God forming the whole person also closely reflects the preceding verse.

  43. Dopamine — Rachel DeLong (2026) Psalms 139:13-16

    The description of God deliberately weaving together the singer's biological makeup closely adapts the psalm's depiction of God forming and intricately making a person in the womb. The song also reflects the passage's emphasis on being thoroughly known by God.

  44. Always Mine — Claire Leslie (2025) Psalms 139:13-16

    The song's lyrics about being fashioned and set apart before taking a breath resonate with the themes of Psalm 139, which speaks to God's intricate involvement in our creation and inherent worth.

  45. Knowing — John Van Deusen (2025) Psalms 139:13-14

    The lyrics reference being known in the womb, which directly echoes the Psalmist's declaration of God's intimate knowledge of us from the moment of conception.

  46. dad song — UPPERROOM & Abbie Gamboa (2023) Psalms 139:13-16

    The song portrays the child as intentionally and delightfully fashioned in every detail, with the child's life known and considered in advance. This closely reflects the psalmist's account of God's personal formation and foreknowledge of a person before birth.

  47. Learning How To Love Myself — Katy Nichole (2025) Psalms 139:14

    The song explicitly references being 'fearfully and wonderfully made,' which directly quotes Psalm 139:14, emphasizing the inherent beauty and value of the individual as a creation of God.

  48. Politicking — Lecrae (2025) Psalms 139:14

    The phrase about being 'fearfully and wonderfully made' directly echoes Psalm 139:14, which celebrates the unique creation and value of each individual.

  49. LORD JESUS — Trendsetter Sense & 1k Phew & Young Dro & ZAYTOVEN (2026) Psalms 139:14

    The mention of being 'fearfully, wonderfully made' echoes the sentiment of Psalm 139:14, which celebrates the uniqueness and intentionality of God's creation.

  50. Bigger Story — Cade Thompson (2021) Psalms 139:16

    The recurring image of God writing a person's life in pages and chapters closely resembles the psalmist's depiction of every day being recorded in God's book. Both use authorship imagery to express God's complete knowledge and providential oversight of a life.

  51. Trouble — David Phelps (2024) Psalms 139:23-24

    The speaker asks for divine examination of his inner life after confessing a wayward heart, closely reflecting the psalmist's closing prayer for God to examine and redirect him.

  52. Honestly, We Just Need Jesus — Terrian (2024) Psalms 139:23-24

    The request for God to examine the singer’s inner life and bring clarity closely parallels David’s concluding prayer for God to search him and expose anything corrupt.

Psalms 139 (King James Version)

1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

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

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

7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

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

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

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 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

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

18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.