Psalms Chapter 139 (NIV)
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Psalm 139For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.O Lord, you have searched meand you know me.
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You know when I sit and when I rise;you perceive my thoughts from afar.
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You discern my going out and my lying down;you are familiar with all my ways.
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Before a word is on my tongueyou know it completely, O Lord.
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You hem me in—behind and before;you have laid your hand upon me.
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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain.
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Where can I go from your Spirit?Where can I flee from your presence?
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If I go up to the heavens, you are there;if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
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If I rise on the wings of the dawn,if I settle on the far side of the sea,
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even there your hand will guide me,your right hand will hold me fast.
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide meand the light become night around me,”
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even the darkness will not be dark to you;the night will shine like the day,for darkness is as light to you.
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For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful,I know that full well.
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My frame was not hidden from youwhen I was made in the secret place.When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
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your eyes saw my unformed body.All the days ordained for mewere written in your bookbefore one of them came to be.
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How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!How vast is the sum of them!
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Were I to count them,they would outnumber the grains of sand.When I awake,I am still with you.
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If only you would slay the wicked, O God!Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
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They speak of you with evil intent;your adversaries misuse your name.
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Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord,and abhor those who rise up against you?
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I have nothing but hatred for them;I count them my enemies.
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Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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See if there is any offensive way in me,and lead me in the way everlasting.
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