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You Have Searched Me and Know Me
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
O LORD, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
O LORD, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
*Thou* knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;
You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, LORD.
even before I say it, LORD.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.
You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
too great for me to understand!
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?
I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
I can never get away from your presence!
If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
[If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
and your strength will support me.
And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night —
and the light around me to become night —
Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.
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.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it.
Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it.
My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
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.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
[If] I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O +God! And ye men of blood, depart from me.
O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!
Get out of my life, you murderers!
Get out of my life, you murderers!
For they speak of thee wickedly, they take [thy name] in vain, thine enemies.
They blaspheme you;
your enemies misuse your name.
your enemies misuse your name.
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you?
Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you?
I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.
Yes, I hate them with total hatred,
for your enemies are my enemies.
for your enemies are my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
test me and know my anxious thoughts.