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1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
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1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
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2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
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2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
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3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
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3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
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4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
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4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
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5 You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
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5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
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6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
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6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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7 Where can I go from Your Spirit ? Or where can I flee from Your presence ?
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7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there ; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
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8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
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9 If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
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9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
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10 Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
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10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,"
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11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
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12 Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.
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12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
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13 For You formed my inward parts ; You wove me in my mother's womb.
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13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
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14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
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14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth ;
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15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
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16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance ; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.
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16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
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17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God ! How vast is the sum of them!
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17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
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18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
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18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
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19 O that You would slay the wicked, O God ; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
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19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
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20 For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
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20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD ? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
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21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
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22 I hate them with the utmost hatred ; They have become my enemies.
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22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart ; Try me and know my anxious thoughts ;
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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.
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24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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