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Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-1.htm">1</a>O LORD, you have searched me and known me!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-1.htm">1</a>For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-1.htm">1</a>To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-1.htm">1</a>For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. LORD, You have searched me and known me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">2</a>You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">2</a>You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">2</a>You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">2</a>Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-2.htm">2</a>You know when I sit down and when I stand up; You understand my thoughts from far away. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm">3</a>You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm">3</a>You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm">3</a>You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm">3</a>Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-3.htm">3</a>You observe my travels and my rest; You are aware of all my ways. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm">4</a>Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm">4</a>Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm">4</a>Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm">4</a>For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-4.htm">4</a>Before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, LORD. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm">5</a>You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm">5</a>You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm">5</a>You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm">5</a>Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-5.htm">5</a>You have encircled me; You have placed Your hand on me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">6</a>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">6</a>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">6</a>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">6</a>Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-6.htm">6</a>This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm">7</a>Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm">7</a>Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm">7</a>Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm">7</a>Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-7.htm">7</a>Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm">8</a>If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm">8</a>If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm">8</a>If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm">8</a>If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-8.htm">8</a>If I go up to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm">9</a>If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm">9</a>If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm">9</a>If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm">9</a>If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-9.htm">9</a>If I live at the eastern horizon or settle at the western limits, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm">10</a>even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm">10</a>even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm">10</a>Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm">10</a>Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-10.htm">10</a>even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will hold on to me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm">11</a>If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm">11</a>If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm">11</a>If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm">11</a>If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm">11</a>If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night"-- </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">12</a>even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">12</a>even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">12</a>Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">12</a>Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">12</a>even the darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to You. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">13</a>For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">13</a>For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">13</a>For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">13</a>For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">13</a>For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm">14</a>I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm">14</a>I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm">14</a>I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm">14</a>I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-14.htm">14</a>I will praise You because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">15</a>My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">15</a>My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">15</a>My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">15</a>My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-15.htm">15</a>My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">16</a>Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">16</a>Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">16</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">16</a>Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">16</a>Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm">17</a>How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm">17</a>How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm">17</a>How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm">17</a>How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-17.htm">17</a>God, how difficult Your thoughts are for me to comprehend; how vast their sum is! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm">18</a>Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand-- when I awake, I am still with you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm">18</a>If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm">18</a>If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm">18</a>If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-18.htm">18</a>If I counted them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; when I wake up, I am still with You. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm">19</a>If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm">19</a>Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm">19</a>O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm">19</a>Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-19.htm">19</a>God, if only You would kill the wicked-- you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me-- </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/139.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">20</a>They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">20</a>They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">20</a>For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">20</a>For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-20.htm">20</a>who invoke You deceitfully. Your enemies swear by You falsely. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">21</a>Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">21</a>Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">21</a>Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">21</a>Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">21</a> LORD, don't I hate those who hate You, and detest those who rebel against You? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm">22</a>I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm">22</a>I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm">22</a>I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm">22</a>I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-22.htm">22</a>I hate them with extreme hatred; I consider them my enemies. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">23</a>Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">23</a>Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">23</a>Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">23</a>Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-23.htm">23</a>Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm">24</a>See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm">24</a>And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm">24</a>And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm">24</a>And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/psalms/139-24.htm">24</a>See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way. </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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