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| [1]O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me. |
[1]To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. |
| [2]Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before. |
[2]Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar. |
| [3]Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways. |
[3]My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted. |
| [4]For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, |
[4]For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all! |
| [5]the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me. |
[5]Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand. |
| [6]The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it. |
[6]Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it. |
| [7]Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence? |
[7]Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee? |
| [8]If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present. |
[8]If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou [art], And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee! |
| [9]If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain, |
[9]I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea, |
| [10]for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me. |
[10]Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me. |
| [11]When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury. |
[11]And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night [is] light to me. |
| [12]For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to thee. |
[12]Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as [is] darkness so [is] light. |
| [13]For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother's womb. |
[13]For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. |
| [14]I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows it well. |
[14]I confess Thee, because that [with] wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful [are] Thy works, And my soul is knowing [it] well. |
| [15]My bones, which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. |
[15]My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth. |
| [16]Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them. |
[16]Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them. |
| [17]But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened. |
[17]And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum! |
| [18]I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee. |
[18]I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee. |
| [19]Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood. |
[19]Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me! |
| [20]For thou wilt say concerning their thought, that they shall take thy cities in vain. |
[20]Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity [are] Thine enemies. |
| [21]Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies? |
[21]Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? |
| [22]I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies. |
[22][With] perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me. |
| [23]Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; |
[23]Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, |
| [24]and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way. |
[24]And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during! |