You Have Searched Me and Known Me 2 DRA Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up. BSB BSB: You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 DRA Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out. BSB BSB: You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
4 DRA And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue. BSB BSB: Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5 DRA Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me. BSB BSB: You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 DRA Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it. BSB BSB: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
8 DRA If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into 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 DRA If I take my wings early in the morning, 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 DRA Even there also 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 DRA And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures. BSB BSB: If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 DRA But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike 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 DRA I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and 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 DRA My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance 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 DRA Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one 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 DRA But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened. BSB BSB: How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
18 DRA I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up 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 DRA If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me: BSB BSB: O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 DRA Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain. BSB BSB: who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 DRA Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies? BSB BSB: Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
22 DRA I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me. BSB BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 DRA 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 DRA And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way. BSB BSB: See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
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