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class="q2"><span class="v19_139_2">from far away you understand all my thoughts.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.3" class="v19_139_3">3</span>You see me, whether I am working or resting;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_3">you know all my actions.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.4" class="v19_139_4">4</span>Even before I speak,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_4">you already know what I will say.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.5" class="v19_139_5">5</span>You are all around me on every side;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_5">you protect me with your power.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.6" class="v19_139_6">6</span>Your knowledge of me is too deep;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_6">it is beyond my understanding.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.7" class="v19_139_7">7</span>Where could I go to escape from you?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_7">Where could I get away from your presence?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.8" class="v19_139_8">8</span>If I went up to heaven, you would be there;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_8">if I lay down in the world of the dead, you would be there.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.9" class="v19_139_9">9</span>If I flew away beyond the east</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_9">or lived in the farthest place in the west,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.10" class="v19_139_10">10</span>you would be there to lead me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_10">you would be there to help me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.11" class="v19_139_11">11</span>I could ask the darkness to hide me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_11">or the light around me to turn into night,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.12" class="v19_139_12">12</span>but even darkness is not dark for you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_12">and the night is as bright as the day.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_12">Darkness and light are the same to you.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.13" class="v19_139_13">13</span>You created every part of me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_13">you put me together in my mother's womb.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.14" class="v19_139_14">14</span>I praise you because you are to be feared;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_14">all you do is strange and wonderful.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_14">I know it with all my heart.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.15" class="v19_139_15">15</span>When my bones were being formed,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_15">carefully put together in my mother's womb,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_15">when I was growing there in secret,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_15">you knew that I was there—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.16" class="v19_139_16">16</span>you saw me before I was born.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_16">The days allotted to me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_16">had all been recorded in your book,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_16">before any of them ever began.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.17" class="v19_139_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.139.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> O God, how difficult I find your thoughts;<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.139.17!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_17">how many of them there are!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.18" class="v19_139_18">18</span>If I counted them, they would be more than the grains of sand.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_18">When I awake, I am still with you.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.19" class="v19_139_19">19</span>O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_19">How I wish violent people would leave me alone!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.20" class="v19_139_20">20</span>They say wicked things about you;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_20">they speak evil things against your name.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.139.20!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.21" class="v19_139_21">21</span>O <span class="nd">Lord</span>, how I hate those who hate you!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_21">How I despise those who rebel against you!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_22"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.22" class="v19_139_22">22</span>I hate them with a total hatred;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_22">I regard them as my enemies.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_23"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.23" class="v19_139_23">23</span>Examine me, O God, and know my mind;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_23">test me, and discover my thoughts.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_139_24"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.139.24" class="v19_139_24">24</span>Find out if there is any evil in me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_139_24">and guide me in the everlasting way.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.139.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A psalm by David.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">139.17: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">how difficult I find your thoughts; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">how precious are your thoughts to me.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">139.20: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">they speak … name; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">139.24: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the everlasting way; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the ways of my ancestors.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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