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For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. |
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You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. |
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You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. |
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Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. |
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You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. |
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. |
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Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? |
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If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. |
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If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, |
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even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. |
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— |
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even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You. |
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For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. |
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I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. |
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My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. |
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Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be. |
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How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum! |
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If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You. |
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O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men— |
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who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain. |
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Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You? |
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I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies. |
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Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. |
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See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting. |
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