You Have Searched Me and Known Me 2 Brenton Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before. BSB BSB: You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 Brenton Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways. BSB BSB: You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4 Brenton For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, BSB BSB: Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5 Brenton the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me. BSB BSB: You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 Brenton The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it. BSB BSB: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
8 Brenton If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present. BSB BSB: If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9 Brenton If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain , BSB BSB: If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10 Brenton for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me. BSB BSB: even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11 Brenton When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury. BSB BSB: If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 Brenton For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to thee . BSB BSB: even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
14 Brenton I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows it well. BSB BSB: I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15 Brenton My bones which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. BSB BSB: My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Brenton Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance , and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them. BSB BSB: Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
17 Brenton But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened. BSB BSB: How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18 Brenton I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee. BSB BSB: If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
19 Brenton Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood. BSB BSB: O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 Brenton For thou wilt say concerning their thought, that they shall take thy cities in vain. BSB BSB: who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Brenton Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies? BSB BSB: Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22 Brenton I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies. BSB BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 Brenton Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; BSB BSB: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24 Brenton and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way. BSB BSB: See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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