New Living Translation NLT
The Message Bible MSG
1 O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
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God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
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I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.
3 You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
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You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight.
4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD .
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You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.
5 You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
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I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too - your reassuring presence, coming and going.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
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This is too much, too wonderful - I can't take it all in!
7 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
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Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
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If I climb to the sky, you're there! If I go underground, you're there!
9 If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
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If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,
10 even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
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You'd find me in a minute - you're already there waiting!
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—
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Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!"
12 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.
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It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
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I thank you, High God - you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration - what a creation!
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
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You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
16 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.
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Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
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Your thoughts - how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them!
18 I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
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I couldn't even begin to count them - any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
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And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers - out of here! -
20 They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.
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all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations.
21 O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
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See how I hate those who hate you, God, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;
22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
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I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies!
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;
24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong - then guide me on the road to eternal life.