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1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
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(138-1) <Unto the end, a psalm of David.> Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
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(138-2) Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
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(138-3) Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
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(138-4) And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
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(138-5) Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
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(138-6) Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
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(138-7) Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
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(138-8) If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
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(138-9) If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
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(138-10) Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
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(138-11) And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
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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.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
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(138-13) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
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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.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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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.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
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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.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
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(138-17) But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
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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.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
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(138-19) If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
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(138-20) Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
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(138-21) Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
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(138-22) I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
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(138-23) Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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(138-24) And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
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