You Have Searched Me and Known Me 2 RV Thou knowest my downsitting 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 RV 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 RV For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. BSB BSB: Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
5 RV Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. BSB BSB: You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
6 RV Such knowledge is 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 RV If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: 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 RV If I take the wings of 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 RV 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 RV If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light about me shall be night; BSB BSB: If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 RV Even the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both 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 RV I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: wonderful 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 RV My frame was not hidden from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought 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 RV Thine eyes did see mine unperfect substance, and in thy book were all my members written, which day by day were 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 RV How precious also 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 RV If I should 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 RV Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men. BSB BSB: O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 RV For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. BSB BSB: who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 RV Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those 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 RV I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. BSB BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 RV Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: BSB BSB: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
24 RV And see if there be any way of wickedness 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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