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         <div class="label">139</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 139</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have searched me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">and you know me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know when I sit and when I rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You discern my going out and my lying down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">you are familiar with all my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before a word is on my tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know it completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You hem me in behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">and you lay your hand upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">too lofty for me to attain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Where can I go from your Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Where can I flee from your presence?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If I go up to the heavens, you are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If I rise on the wings of the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">even there your hand will guide me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">your right hand will hold me fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness will hide me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">and the light become night around me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">even the darkness will not be dark to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">the night will shine like the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">for darkness is as light to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For you created my inmost being;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">your works are wonderful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">I know that full well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My frame was not hidden from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was made in the secret place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your eyes saw my unformed body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">before one of them came to be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How precious to me are your thoughts,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">139:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">How amazing are your thoughts concerning me</span></span></span><span class="content"> God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How vast is the sum of them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Were I to count them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">they would outnumber the grains of sand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">when I awake, I am still with you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They speak of you with evil intent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">your adversaries misuse your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do I not hate those who hate you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I have nothing but hatred for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Search me, God, and know my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">See if there is any offensive way in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="content">and lead me in the way everlasting.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">140</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 140</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 140:1-13 is numbered 140:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rescue me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, from evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="content">protect me from the violent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who devise evil plans in their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="content">and stir up war every day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="content">the poison of vipers is on their lips.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">140:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Keep me safe, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, from the hands of the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">protect me from the violent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">who devise ways to trip my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The arrogant have hidden a snare for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">they have spread out the cords of their net</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">and have set traps for me along my path.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I say to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You are my God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="content">Hear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my strong deliverer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="content">you shield my head in the day of battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not grant the wicked their desires, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="content">do not let their plans succeed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="content">may the mischief of their lips engulf them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May burning coals fall on them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">may they be thrown into the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">into miry pits, never to rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May slanderers not be established in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="content">may disaster hunt down the violent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> secures justice for the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="content">and upholds the cause of the needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.140.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Surely the righteous will praise your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.140.13"><span class="content">and the upright will live in your presence.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">141</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 141</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, come quickly to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="content">hear me when I call to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer be set before you like incense;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="content">may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Set a guard over my mouth, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="content">keep watch over the door of my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">so that I take part in wicked deeds</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">along with those who are evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">do not let me eat their delicacies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let a righteous man strike me&#8212;that is a kindness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">let him rebuke me&#8212;that is oil on my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">My head will not refuse it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="content">and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They will say, &#8220;As one plows and breaks up the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="content">so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="content">in you I take refuge&#8212;do not give me over to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="content">from the snares they have laid for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.141.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let the wicked fall into their own nets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.141.10"><span class="content">while I pass by in safety.</span></span></div>
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