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| Yahweh, you examine me and know me, |
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| you know if I am standing or sitting, you read my thoughts from far away, |
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| whether I walk or lie down, you are watching, you know every detail of my conduct. |
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| The word is not even on my tongue, Yahweh, before you know all about it; |
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| close behind and close in front you fence me round, shielding me with your hand. |
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| Such knowledge is beyond my understanding, a height to which my mind cannot attain. |
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| Where could I go to escape your spirit? Where could I flee from your presence? |
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| If I climb the heavens, you are there, there too, if I lie in Sheol |
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| If I flew to the point of sunrise, or westward across the sea, |
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| your hand would still be guiding me, your right hand holding me. |
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| If I asked darkness to cover me, and light to become night around me, |
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| that darkness would not be dark to you, night would be as light as day. |
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| It was you who created my inmost self, and put me together in my mother’s womb; |
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| for all these mysteries I thank you: for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works. You know me through and through, |
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| from having watched my bones take shape when I was being formed in secret, knitted together in the limbo of the womb. |
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| You had scrutinised my every action, all were recorded in your book, my days listed and determined, even before the first of them |
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| occurred. God, how hard it is to grasp your thoughts! How impossible to count them! |
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| I could no more count them than I could the sand, and suppose I could, you would still be with me. |
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| God, If only you would kill the wicked! Men of blood, away from me! |
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| They talk blasphemously about you, regard your thoughts as nothing. |
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| Yahweh, do I not hate those who hate you, and loathe those who defy you? |
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| I hate them with a total hatred, I regard them as my own enemies. |
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| God, examine me and know my heart, probe me and know my thoughts; |
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| make sure I do not follow pernicious ways, and guide me in the way that is everlasting. |
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