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(138-8) If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
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(138-9) If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
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(138-10) Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
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(138-11) And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
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(138-12) But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
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(138-13) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
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(138-14) I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
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(138-15) My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
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(138-16) Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
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(138-17) But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
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(138-18) I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still with thee.