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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
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You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.
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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 in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
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You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
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Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall 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, behold, you are there.
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If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
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Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
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If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
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Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
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For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother's womb.
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I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
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My frame was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
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How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
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If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
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Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
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For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
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Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
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I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
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And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.