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            <div class="label">139</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.</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">O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, thou hast searched me, and known </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><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">Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">Thou compassest my path and my lying down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">And art acquainted </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> 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">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> not a word in my tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content">, lo, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, thou knowest it altogether.</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">Thou hast beset me behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">And laid thine 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">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Such</span></span><span class="content"> knowledge </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> too wonderful for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">It is high, I cannot </span><span class="add"><span class="content">attain</span></span><span class="content"> unto it.</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">Whither shall I go from thy spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Or whither shall I flee from thy 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 ascend up into heaven, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> 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 hell, behold, thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art there</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I take the wings of the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> dwell in the uttermost parts 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 shall thy hand lead me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">And thy right hand shall hold me.</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, Surely the darkness shall cover me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">Even the night shall be light about me.</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">Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; But the night shineth as the day:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">The darkness and the light </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> both alike </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to thee</span></span><span class="content">.</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 thou hast possessed my reins:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">Thou hast covered me in my mother'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 will praise thee; for I am fearfully </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> wonderfully made:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">Marvellous </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> thy works; And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> my soul knoweth right well.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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 substance was not hid from thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">When I was made in secret, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> curiously wrought in the lowest parts 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">Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">And in thy book all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">my members</span></span><span class="content"> were written,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> in continuance were fashioned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">When </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as yet there was</span></span><span class="content"> none of them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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 also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How great 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">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:</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 thee.</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">Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.</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">For they speak against thee wickedly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> thine enemies take </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy name</span></span><span class="content"> in vain.</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 not I hate them, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, that hate thee?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?</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 hate them with perfect hatred:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them mine enemies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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, O God, and know my heart:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">Try me, and know my 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">And see if </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there be any</span></span><span class="content"> wicked 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><div class="b"></div>
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