Young's Literal Translation YLT
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1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
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You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2 Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
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You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.
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You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!
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Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5 Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.
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You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?
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Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou [art], And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
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If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
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If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me.
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even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night [is] light to me.
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as [is] darkness so [is] light.
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even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
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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.
16 Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.
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Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!
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How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.
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Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
19 Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
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If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity [are] Thine enemies.
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They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
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Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 [With] perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
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I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
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Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!
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See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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