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The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 139 -

You have searched me and known me

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Yahweh, you have examined what is in my inner being, and you know everything about me.
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You know when I sit down and when I stand up. Even though you are far away from me, you know what I am thinking.
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From the time that I rise in the morning until I lie down to sleep at night, you know everything that I do.
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Yahweh, even before I say anything, you know everything that I am going to say!
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You protect me on all sides; you put your hand on me to protect me with your power.
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I am not able to understand that you know everything about me. That is too hard for me to really understand.
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Where could I go to escape from your Spirit? Where could I go to get away from you?
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If I go up to heaven, you will be there. If I lie down in the place where the dead people are, you will be there.
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If the sun could carry me across the sky, if I flew west and made a place to live on an island in the ocean,
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you would be there also to lead me by your hand, and you would help me.
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I could wish for the darkness to hide me, or I could wish for the light around me to become darkness.
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But even if that happened, you would still see me. For you the night is as bright as the daytime, because daylight and darkness are no different to you.
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You created all the parts of my body; you put the parts of my body together when I was still in my mother’s womb.
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I praise you because you made my body very awesomely and wonderfully. Everything that you do is amazing! I certainly know that very well.
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When my body was being formed, while it was being put together where no one else could see it, you saw it!
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You saw me before I was born. You wrote in your book the number of days that you had decided that I would live. You did that before any of those days had even started!
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God, what you think about me is very valuable. There are a huge amount of things that you think about.
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If I could count them, I would see that they are more than the grains of sand at the seashore. When I awake, I am still with you.
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God, I wish that you would kill the wicked people! I wish that violent men would all leave me.
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They say wicked things about you; they slander your name.
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Yahweh, I certainly hate those who hate you! I despise those who rebel against you.
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I hate them completely, and I consider that they are my enemies.
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God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!
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Find out whether there is anything evil in my inner being, and lead me along the road that leads to my being with you forever.
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You have searched me and known me

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LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
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You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
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You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
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For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.
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You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
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This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
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Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
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If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol,(a) behold, you are there!
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If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
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even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
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even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
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For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
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My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
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Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
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How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
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If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
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If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
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For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
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LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
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I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
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Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
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See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Footnotes

(a)139:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.
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