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1 (138-1) <Unto the end, a psalm of David.> Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
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O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 (138-2) Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.
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You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 (138-3) Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
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You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 (138-4) And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
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Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.
5 (138-5) Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
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You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6 (138-6) Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 (138-7) Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
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Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 (138-8) If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
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If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 (138-9) If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
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If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 (138-10) Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
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even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 (138-11) And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
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If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,"
12 (138-12) But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
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even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 (138-13) For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
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For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 (138-14) I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
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I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well.
15 (138-15) My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
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My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 (138-16) Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
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Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.
17 (138-17) But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
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How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 (138-18) I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still with thee.
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I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end —I am still with you.
19 (138-19) If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
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O that you would kill the wicked, O God, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me—
20 (138-20) Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
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those who speak of you maliciously, and lift themselves up against you for evil!
21 (138-21) Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?
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Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 (138-22) I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
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I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
23 (138-23) Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
24 (138-24) And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
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See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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