| 139 | Psalms | Passage |
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For the choirmaster Of David Psalm
Yahweh, you examine me and know me, |
God all-knowing & ever-present. Psalm 139(v138)
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you know when I sit, when I rise, you understand my thoughts from afar. |
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You watch when I walk or lie down, you know every detail of my conduct. |
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A word is not yet on my tongue before you, Yahweh, know all about it. |
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You fence me in, behind and in front, you have laid your hand upon me. |
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Such amazing knowledge is beyond me, a height to which I cannot attain. |
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Where shall I go to escape your spirit? Where shall I flee from your presence? |
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If I scale the heavens you are there, if I lie flat in Sheol, there you are. |
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If I speed away on the wings of the dawn, if I dwell beyond the ocean, |
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even there your hand will be guiding me, your right hand holding me fast. |
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I will say, 'Let the darkness cover me, and the night wrap itself around me,' |
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even darkness to you is not dark, and night is as clear as the day. |
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You created my inmost self, knit me together in my mother's womb. |
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For so many marvels I thank you; a wonder am I, and all your works are wonders. You knew me through and through, |
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my being held no secrets from you, when I was being formed in secret, textured in the depths of the earth. |
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Your eyes could see my embryo. In your book all my days were inscribed, every one that was fixed is there. |
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How hard for me to grasp your thoughts, how many, God, there are! |
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| 18 |
If I count them, they are more than the grains of sand; if I come to an end, I am still with you. |
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| 19 |
If only, God, you would kill the wicked!-Men of violence, keep away from me!- |
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those who speak blasphemously about you, and take no account of your thoughts. |
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Yahweh, do I not hate those who hate you, and loathe those who defy you? |
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My hate for them has no limits, I regard them as my own enemies. |
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God, examine me and know my heart, test me and know my concerns. |
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Make sure that I am not on my way to ruin, and guide me on the road of eternity. |
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