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Good News Translation GNT
1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
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Lord, you have examined me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
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You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
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You see me, whether I am working or resting; you know all my actions.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
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Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
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You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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Where could I go to escape from you? Where could I get away from your presence?
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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If I went up to heaven, you would be there; if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
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If I flew away beyond the east or lived in the farthest place in the west,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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you would be there to lead me, you would be there to help me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
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I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night,
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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but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.
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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When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there -
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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you saw me before I was born. The days allotted to me had all been recorded in your book, before any of them ever began.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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O God, how difficult I find your thoughts; how many of them there are!
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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If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
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O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked! How I wish violent people would leave me alone!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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They say wicked things about you; they speak evil things against your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
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O Lord, how I hate those who hate you! How I despise those who rebel against you!
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
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I hate them with a total hatred; I regard them as my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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Examine me, O God, and know my mind; test me, and discover my thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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Find out if there is any evil in me and guide me in the everlasting way.
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.