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For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 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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7.
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, 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 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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19.
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.
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