You Have Searched Me and Known Me 2 CPDV You have known my sitting down and my rising up again. BSB BSB: You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 CPDV You have understood my thoughts from afar. My path and my fate, you have investigated. BSB BSB: You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4 CPDV And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue. BSB BSB: Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5 CPDV Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me. BSB BSB: You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 CPDV Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. It has been reinforced, and I am not able to prevail against it. BSB BSB: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
8 CPDV If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near. BSB BSB: If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9 CPDV If I assume my feathers in early morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea, BSB BSB: If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10 CPDV even there, your hand will lead me forth, and your right hand will hold me. BSB BSB: even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11 CPDV And I said: Perhaps darkness will overwhelm me, and the night will be my illumination, to my delight. BSB BSB: If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 CPDV But darkness will not be impenetrable to you, and night will illuminate like the day: for just as its darkness is, so also is its light. 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 CPDV I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well. BSB BSB: I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15 CPDV My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, and my substance is in accord with the lower 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 CPDV Your eyes saw my imperfection, and all this shall be written in your book. Days will be formed, and no one shall be in 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 CPDV But to me, O God, your friends have been greatly honored. Their first ruler has been exceedingly strengthened. BSB BSB: How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18 CPDV I will number them, and they will be more numerous than the sand. I rose up, and I am still with you. 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 CPDV O God, if only you would cut down sinners. You men of blood: depart from me. BSB BSB: O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 CPDV For you say in thought: They will accept your cities in vain. BSB BSB: who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 CPDV Have I not hated those who hated you, Lord, and wasted away because of your enemies? BSB BSB: Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22 CPDV I have hated them with a perfect hatred, and they have become enemies to me. BSB BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 CPDV Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Question me, and know my paths. BSB BSB: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24 CPDV And see if there might be in me the way of iniquity, and lead me in the way of eternity. BSB BSB: See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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