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¹OH Yahvah, you have searched me and known me. ²You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thoughts from above. ³You know my way and my paths, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴For if there is deception in my tongue, look, oh Yahvah, you know it altogether. ⁵From the beginning to the end, you know me, oh Yahvah, for you have formed and laid your hand on me. ⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.

⁷Where will I go from your Spirit? Where will I flee from your presence? ⁸If I ascend into heaven, you are there; if I descend into Sheol, look, you are also there. ⁹If I lift up my wings like those of an eagle, and live in the uttermost parts of the sea, ¹⁰Even there your hand will also lead me, and your right hand will hold me. ¹¹If I say, Surely the darkness will be as light on me; even the night will be light before my face. ¹²The darkness will not be dark to you; but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to you. ¹³For you have made my heart; you have accepted me from my mother's womb. ¹⁴I will praise you, because of the wonders which you have done; marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵My substance was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and marvellously worked in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and on your books all these things were written, even before day was and man was brought into existence.

¹⁷How precious also are your mercies to me, oh God! How great is the total of them? ¹⁸If I should count the best of them, they are more in number than the grains of sand; when I awake I am still with you. ¹⁹Surely you will slay the wicked, oh God; depart from me therefore, you bloody men. ²⁰For they speak against you, and have taken your city without cause. ²¹I hate them, oh Yahvah, who hate you; and I am grieved with those who rise up against you. ²²I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. ²³Search me, oh God, and know my heart; try me, and know my ways, ²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.