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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.
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
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.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.
You understand my thought from afar.
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.
You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, LORD.
even before I say it, LORD.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
Behold, O LORD, You know it all.
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.
You have enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
too great for me to understand!
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
I can never get away from your presence!
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
Or where can 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 make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
and your strength will support me.
Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night —
and the light around me to become night —
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
And the light around me will be night,”
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.
Even the darkness is not dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.
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.
For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
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.
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
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.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
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.
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.
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
How vast is the sum of them!
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!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
When I awake, I am still with You.
O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!
Get out of my life, you murderers!
Get out of my life, you murderers!
O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
They blaspheme you;
your enemies misuse your name.
your enemies misuse your name.
For they speak against You wickedly,
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
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?
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
Yes, I hate them with total hatred,
for your enemies are my enemies.
for your enemies are my enemies.
I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
They have become my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;