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¹ O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me. ² Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before. ³ Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways. ⁴ For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, ⁵ the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me. ⁶ The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it.

⁷ Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence? ⁸ If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present. ⁹ If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain, ¹⁰ for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me. ¹¹ When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury. 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. ¹³ For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother’s womb. ¹⁴ I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows 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. 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.

¹⁷ But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened. ¹⁸ I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee. ¹⁹ Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood. ²⁰ For thou wilt say concerning their thought, that they shall take thy cities in vain. ²¹ Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies? ²² I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies. ²³ Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; ²⁴ and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.