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.
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.
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14 Therefore, the days are surely coming, says the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of Egypt, 15but As the Lord lives who brought the people of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where he had driven them. For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their ancestors.
16 I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my sight.
18And* I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
19 O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge on the day of trouble,
to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies,
worthless things in which there is no profit.
20 Can mortals make for themselves gods?
Such are no gods!
21 Therefore I am surely going to teach them, this time I am going to teach them my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.
17The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts, and on the horns of their altars,
2while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles,* beside every green tree, and on the high hills,
3on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin* throughout all your territory.
4By your own act you shall lose the heritage that I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled* that shall burn for ever.
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7 Tychicus will tell you all the news about me; he is a beloved brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow-servant* in the Lord. 8I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are* and that he may encourage your hearts; 9he is coming with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.
10 Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner greets you, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom you have received instructionsif he comes to you, welcome him.
11And Jesus who is called Justus greets you. These are the only ones of the circumcision among my co-workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant* of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.
13For I testify for him that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.
14Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
15Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters* in Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.
16And when this letter has been read among you, have it read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you read also the letter from Laodicea.
17And say to Archippus, See that you complete the task that you have received in the Lord.
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