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1 Lord, you have examined me and know all about me.
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O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them.
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You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You know where I go and where I lie down. You know thoroughly everything I do.
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You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Lord, even before I say a word, you already know it.
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Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You are all around me -- in front and in back -- and have put your hand on me.
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You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6 Your knowledge is amazing to me; it is more than I can understand.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you?
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Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there.
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If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea,
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If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me.
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even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 I could say, "The darkness will hide me. Let the light around me turn into night."
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If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night, ”
12 But even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light as the day; darkness and light are the same to you.
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even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
13 You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother's body.
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For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.
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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother's body. When I was put together there,
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My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.
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Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
17 God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!
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How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
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If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
19 God, I wish you would kill the wicked! Get away from me, you murderers!
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Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
20 They say evil things about you. Your enemies use your name thoughtlessly.
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They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Lord, I hate those who hate you; I hate those who rise up against you.
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Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I feel only hate for them; they are my enemies.
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I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
23 God, examine me and know my heart; test me and know my nervous thoughts.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24 See if there is any bad thing in me. Lead me on the road to everlasting life.
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And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!