1 O Lord, you have searched me out and known me; ♦︎
you know my sitting down and my rising up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
2 You mark out my journeys and my resting place ♦︎
and are acquainted with all my ways.
3 For there is not a word on my tongue, ♦︎
but you, O Lord, know it altogether.
4 You encompass me behind and before ♦︎
and lay your hand upon me.
5 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, ♦︎
so high that I cannot attain it.
6 Where can I go then from your spirit? ♦︎
Or where can I flee from your presence?
7 If I climb up to heaven, you are there; ♦︎
if I make the grave my bed, you are there also.
8 If I take the wings of the morning ♦︎
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
9 Even there your hand shall lead me, ♦︎
your right hand hold me fast.
10 If I say, Surely the darkness will cover me ♦︎
and the light around me turn to night,
11 Even darkness is no darkness with you;
the night is as clear as the day; ♦︎
darkness and light to you are both alike.
12 For you yourself created my inmost parts; ♦︎
you knit me together in my mothers womb.
13 I thank you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; ♦︎
marvellous are your works, my soul knows well.
14 My frame was not hidden from you, ♦︎
when I was made in secret
and woven in the depths of the earth.
15 Your eyes beheld my form, as yet unfinished; ♦︎
already in your book were all my members written,
16 As day by day they were fashioned ♦︎
when as yet there was none of them.
17 How deep are your counsels to me, O God! ♦︎
How great is the sum of them!
18 If I count them, they are more in number than the sand, ♦︎
and at the end, I am still in your presence.
19 O that you would slay the wicked, O God, ♦︎
that the bloodthirsty might depart from me!
20 They speak against you with wicked intent; ♦︎
your enemies take up your name for evil.
21 Do I not oppose those, O Lord, who oppose you? ♦︎
Do I not abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with a perfect hatred; ♦︎
they have become my own enemies also.
23 Search me out, O God, and know my heart; ♦︎
try me and examine my thoughts.
24 See if there is any way of wickedness in me ♦︎
and lead me in the way everlasting.
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28Like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day, such was the appearance of the splendour all round. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.
2He said to me: O mortal,* stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you. 2And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me. 3He said to me, Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to a nation* of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day. 4The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God. 5Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them. 6And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 7You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house.
8 But you, mortal, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you. 9I looked, and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it. 10He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
3He said to me, O mortal, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. 2So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat. 3He said to me, Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it. Then I ate it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.
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28 Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus* took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. 29And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. 30Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. 31They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake,* they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. 33Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings,* one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijahnot knowing what he said. 34While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud. 35Then from the cloud came a voice that said, This is my Son, my Chosen;* listen to him! 36When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen.
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