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  • O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
  • Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

    To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

    O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
  • You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    You understand my thought from afar.
  • You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you discern my thoughts from afar.
  • You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
    And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  • You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
  • Even before there is a word on my tongue,
    Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
  • Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
  • You have enclosed me behind and before,
    And laid Your hand upon me.
  • You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay your hand upon me.
  • Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
  • Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.
  • Where can I go from Your Spirit?
    Or where can I flee from Your presence?
  • Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where shall I flee from your presence?
  • If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
    If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
  • If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
  • If I take the wings of the dawn,
    If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
  • If I take the wings of the morning
    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
  • Even there Your hand will lead me,
    And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
  • even there your hand shall lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.
  • If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
    And the light around me will be night,”
  • If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and the light about me be night,”
  • Even the darkness is not dark to You,
    And the night is as bright as the day.
    Darkness and light are alike to You.
  • even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.
  • For You formed my inward parts;
    You wove me in my mother’s womb.
  • For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
  • I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    Wonderful are Your works,
    And my soul knows it very well.
  • I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.a
    Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
  • My frame was not hidden from You,
    When I was made in secret,
    And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
  • My frame was not hidden from you,
    when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
  • Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
    And in Your book were all written
    The days that were ordained for me,
    When as yet there was not one of them.
  • Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
    in your book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.
  • How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
  • How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
  • If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
    When I awake, I am still with You.
  • If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
    I awake, and I am still with you.
  • O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
    Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
  • Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
    O men of blood, depart from me!
  • For they speak against You wickedly,
    And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
  • They speak against you with malicious intent;
    your enemies take your name in vain.b
  • Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD?
    And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
  • Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
    And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
  • I hate them with the utmost hatred;
    They have become my enemies.
  • I hate them with complete hatred;
    I count them my enemies.
  • Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
  • Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    Try me and know my thoughts!c
  • And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
    And lead me in the everlasting way.
  • And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting!d

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