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Where Can I Go from Your Spirit?

¹ O Yahweh, You have ^(C1)searched me and known me.

² You ^(C1)know ^(F1)when I sit down and ^(F2)when I rise up;
You ^(C2)understand my thought from afar.

³ You ^(F1)(C1)scrutinize my ^(F2)path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

^4 (F1)Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Yahweh, You ^(C1)know it all.

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

⁶ Such ^(C1)knowledge is ^(C2)too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to 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, behold, ^(C2)You are there.

⁹ If I lift up 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 lay hold of me.

¹¹ If I say, "Surely the ^(C1)darkness will ^(C2)bruise me,
And the light around me will be night,"

¹² Even the ^(C1)darkness is not too dark for You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
^(C2)Darkness and light are alike to You.

¹³ For You ^(C1)formed my ^(F1)inward parts;
You ^(C2)wove me in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ I will give thanks to You, for ^(F1)I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
^(C1)Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.

¹⁵ My ^(F1)(C1)frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And ^(C2)intricately woven in the ^(C3)depths of the earth;

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

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

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

¹⁹ Oh that You would ^(C1)slay the wicked, O God!
^(C2)O ^(C3)men of bloodshed, depart from me.

²⁰ For they ^(C1)speak ^(F1)against You wickedly,
And Your enemies ^(F2)(C2)take Your name in vain.

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

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

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

²⁴ And see if there be any ^(F1)(C1)hurtful way in me,
And ^(C2)lead me in the ^(C3)everlasting way.