New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
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To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
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Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
3 You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
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My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.
4 You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD .
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For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!
5 You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
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Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
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Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
7 I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!
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Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?
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 ascend the heavens -- there Thou [art], And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
9 If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
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I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.
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Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—
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And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night [is] light to me.
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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Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as [is] darkness so [is] light.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
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I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well.
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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My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
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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Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
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And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!
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 recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.
19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers!
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Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
20 They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name.
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Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity [are] Thine enemies.
21 O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
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Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies.
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[With] perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
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And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!
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