You Have Searched Me and Known Me 2 DBY Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off; BSB BSB: You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 DBY Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways; BSB BSB: You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4 DBY For there is not yet a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether. BSB BSB: Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5 DBY Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me. BSB BSB: You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 DBY O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot attain unto it. BSB BSB: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
8 DBY If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there ; BSB BSB: If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9 DBY If I take the wings of the dawn and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,BSB BSB: If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10 DBY Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. BSB BSB: even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11 DBY And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night; BSB BSB: If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 DBY Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the 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 DBY I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. BSB BSB: I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15 DBY My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in 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 DBY Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all my members were written; during many days were they fashioned, when as yet there was none of 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 DBY But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! BSB BSB: How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18 DBY If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I 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 DBY Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God! And ye men of blood, depart from me. BSB BSB: O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 DBY For they speak of thee wickedly, they take thy name in vain, thine enemies. BSB BSB: who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 DBY Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee? BSB BSB: Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22 DBY I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies. BSB BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 DBY Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts; BSB BSB: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24 DBY And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. BSB BSB: See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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