You Have Searched Me and Known Me 2 WBS Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off. BSB BSB: You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 WBS Thou compassest 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 WBS For there is not a word on 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 WBS 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 WBS Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.BSB BSB: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
8 WBS If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. BSB BSB: If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 WBS Yes, 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 WBS I will praise thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: wonderful are thy works; and that my soul well knoweth. BSB BSB: I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
15 WBS My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, and curiously formed 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 WBS Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance 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 WBS How precious also are thy thoughts to 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 WBS 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 WBS Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. BSB BSB: O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
20 WBS For they speak against thee wickedly, and thy enemies take thy name in vain. BSB BSB: who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 WBS 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 WBS I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies. BSB BSB: I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies.
23 WBS 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 WBS And see if there is any wicked 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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