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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27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. 28You heard me say to you, I am going away, and I am coming to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 29And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.
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