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1 For the leader. A psalm of David: ADONAI, you have probed me, and you know 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 and when I stand up, you discern my inclinations 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 daily activities. You are so familiar 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 that before I speak even a word, ADONAI, you know all about it already.
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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 hemmed me in both behind and in front and laid your hand on 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 wonderful knowledge is beyond me, far too high for me to reach.
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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 to escape your Spirit? 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 climb up to heaven, you are there; if I lie down in Sh'ol, 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 fly away with the wings of the dawn and land beyond 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 would lead me, your right hand would hold me fast.
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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, "Let darkness surround me, let the light around me 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 darkness like this is not too dark for you; rather, night is as clear as day, darkness and light are the same.
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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 fashioned my inmost being, you knit me together 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 thank you because I am awesomely made, wonderfully; your works are wonders -I know this 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 bones were not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven 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 could see me as an embryo, but in your book all my days were already written; my days had been shaped before any of them existed.
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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 God, how I prize your thoughts! How many of them there are!
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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 count them, there are more than grains of sand; if I finish the count, 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 God, if only you would kill off the wicked! Men of blood, get away from me!
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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 They invoke your name for their crafty schemes; yes, your enemies misuse it.
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20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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21 ADONAI, how I hate those who hate you! I feel such disgust with those who defy 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 unlimited hatred! They have become my enemies too.
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22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
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23 Examine me, God, and know my heart; test me, and know my 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 See if there is in me any hurtful way, and lead me along the eternal 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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| Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) |
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