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A psalm of David.</p> <p class="chsect">I</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span class="tetr">Lord</span>, you have probed me, you know me:</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v23139002" class="ver">2</span>you know when I sit and stand;<a id="rfn23139002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23139002-1">*</a><a id="ren23139002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl1">you understand my thoughts from afar.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139003" class="ver">3</span>You sift through my travels and my rest;</p> <p class="sl1">with all my ways you are familiar.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139004" class="ver">4</span>Even before a word is on my tongue,</p> <p class="sl1"><span class="tetr">Lord</span>, you know it all.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139005" class="ver">5</span>Behind and before you encircle me</p> <p class="sl1">and rest your hand upon me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139006" class="ver">6</span>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</p> <p class="sl1">far too lofty for me to reach.<a id="ren23139006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139006-b">b</a></p> <p class="slf"><span id="v23139007" class="ver">7</span>Where can I go from your spirit?</p> <p class="sl1">From your presence, where can I flee?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139008" class="ver">8</span>If I ascend to the heavens, you are there;</p> <p class="sl1">if I lie down in Sheol, there you are.<a id="ren23139008-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139008-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139009" class="ver">9</span>If I take the wings of dawn<a id="rfn23139009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23139009-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">and dwell beyond the sea,<a class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23139009-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139010" class="ver">10</span>Even there your hand guides me,</p> <p class="sl1">your right hand holds me fast.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139011" class="ver">11</span>If I say, “Surely darkness shall hide me,</p> <p class="sl1">and night shall be my light”<a id="rfn23139011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23139011-1">*</a>—</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139012" class="ver">12</span>Darkness is not dark for you,</p> <p class="sl1">and night shines as the day.</p> <p class="sl1">Darkness and light are but one.<a id="ren23139012-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139012-d">d</a></p> </div> <p class="chsect">II</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23139013" class="ver">13</span>You formed my inmost being;</p> <p class="sl1">you knit me in my mother’s womb.<a id="ren23139013-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139013-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139014" class="ver">14</span>I praise you, because I am wonderfully made;</p> <p class="sl1">wonderful are your works!</p> <p class="sl1">My very self you know.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139015" class="ver">15</span>My bones are not hidden from you,</p> <p class="sl">When I was being made in secret,</p> <p class="sl1">fashioned in the depths of the earth.<a id="rfn23139015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn23139015-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139016" class="ver">16</span>Your eyes saw me unformed;</p> <p class="sl1">in your book all are written down;<a id="ren23139016-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139016-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">my days were shaped, before one came to be.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">III</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23139017" class="ver">17</span>How precious to me are your designs, O God;</p> <p class="sl1">how vast the sum of them!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139018" class="ver">18</span>Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sands;</p> <p class="sl1">when I complete them, still you are with me.<a id="ren23139018-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139018-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139019" class="ver">19</span>When you would destroy the wicked, O God,</p> <p class="sl1">the bloodthirsty depart from me!<a id="ren23139019-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139019-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139020" class="ver">20</span>Your foes who conspire a plot against you</p> <p class="sl1">are exalted in vain.</p> </div> <p class="chsect">IV</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v23139021" class="ver">21</span>Do I not hate, <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, those who hate you?</p> <p class="sl1">Those who rise against you, do I not loathe?<a id="ren23139021-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139021-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139022" class="ver">22</span>With fierce hatred I hate them,</p> <p class="sl1">enemies I count as my own.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v23139023" class="ver">23</span>Probe me, God, know my heart;</p> <p class="sl1">try me, know my thoughts.<a id="ren23139023-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en23139023-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v23139024" class="ver">24</span>See 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