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1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
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Lord, you have examined me and know all about me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
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You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
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You know where I go and where I lie down. You know thoroughly everything I do.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
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Lord, even before I say a word, you already know it.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
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You are all around me -- in front and in back -- and have put your hand on me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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Your knowledge is amazing to me; it is more than I can understand.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you?
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 go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are 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 rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
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I could say, "The darkness will hide me. Let the light around me 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 the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light 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 made my whole being; you formed me in my mother's body.
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 made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.
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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You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother's body. When I was put together 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 my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!
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 could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand. When I wake up, 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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God, I wish you would kill the wicked! Get away from me, you murderers!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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They say evil things about you. Your enemies use your name thoughtlessly.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
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Lord, I hate those who hate you; I hate those who rise up against you.
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
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I feel only hate for them; they are my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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God, examine me and know my heart; test me and know my nervous thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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See if there is any bad thing in me. Lead me on the road to everlasting life.