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1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
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O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything 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 or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
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You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
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You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD .
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
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You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never 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 go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to 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 ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support 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 and the light around me to become 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 in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as 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 all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit 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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Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
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 watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
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. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
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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I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
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O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse 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, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
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Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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