Psalm 139
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- Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
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- O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
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- You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
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- You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
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- Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
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- You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
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- Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
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- Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
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- If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, [1] you are there.
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- If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
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- even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
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- If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
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- 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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- For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
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- I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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- 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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- 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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- How precious to [2] me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
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- 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 only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
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- They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
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- Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
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- I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
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- Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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- See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
