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To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. |
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Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar. |
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My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And `with' all my ways hast been acquainted. |
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For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all! |
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Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand. |
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Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it. |
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Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee? |
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If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou `art', And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee! |
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I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea, |
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Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me. |
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And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me. |
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Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light. |
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For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. |
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I confess Thee, because that `with' wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful `are' Thy works, And my soul is knowing `it' well. |
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My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth. |
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Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them. |
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And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum! |
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I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee. |
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Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me! |
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Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity `are' Thine enemies. |
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Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? |
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`With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me. |
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Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, |
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And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during! |