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God's Omnipresence and Omniscience.

¹ O LORD, you have ^(C1)searched me thoroughly and have known me.

² You ^(C1)know when I sit down and when I rise up my entire life, everything I do;
You ^(C2)understand my thought from afar. ^(VR1)

³ You ^(C1)scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ Even before there is a word on my tongue still unspoken,
Behold, O LORD, You ^(C1)know it all. ^(VR1)

⁵ You have ^(C1)enclosed me behind and before,
And You have ^(C2)placed Your hand upon me.

⁶ Such infinite ^(C1)knowledge is ^(C2)too wonderful for me;
It is too high above me, I cannot reach it.

^7 (C1)Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?

^8 (C1)If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, ^(C2)You are there. ^(VR1)

⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

¹⁰ Even there Your hand will ^(C1)lead me,
And Your right hand will take hold of me.

¹¹ If I say, "Surely the ^(C1)darkness will cover me,
And the night will be the only light around me,"

¹² Even the ^(C1)darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You,
But the night shines as bright as the day;
^(C2)Darkness and light are alike to You. ^(VR1)

¹³ For You ^(C1)formed my innermost parts;
You ^(C2)knit me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
^(C1)Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.

¹⁵ My ^(C1)frame was not hidden from You,
When I was being formed in secret,
And intricately and skillfully formed as if embroidered with many colors in the ^(C2)depths of the earth.

¹⁶ Your ^(C1)eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in ^(C2)Your book were all written
The ^(C3)days that were appointed for me,
When as yet there was not one of them even taking shape.

¹⁷ How precious also are Your ^(C1)thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them! ^(VR1)

¹⁸ If I could count them, they would ^(C1)outnumber the sand.
When ^(C2)I awake, I am still with You.

^19 (F1)O that You would ^(C1)kill the wicked, O God;
^(C2)Go away from me, therefore, ^(C3)men of bloodshed. ^(VR1)

²⁰ For they ^(C1)speak against You wickedly,
Your enemies ^(C2)take Your name in vain. ^(VR1)

²¹ Do I not ^(C1)hate those who hate You, O LORD?
And do I not ^(C2)loathe those who rise up against You?

²² I hate them with perfect and utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.

^23 (C1)Search me thoroughly, O God, and know my heart;
^(C2)Test me and know my anxious thoughts;

²⁴ And see if there is any ^(C1)wicked or hurtful way in me,
And ^(C2)lead me in the ^(C3)everlasting way.