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God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
You BPs 94:11; Is 66:18; Matt 9:4understand my thought from afar.
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 1Lit For there is notEven before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Loʀᴅ, You AHeb 4:13know it all.
5 You have APs 34:7; 125:2enclosed me behind and before,
And BJob 9:33laid Your hand upon me.
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
7 AJer 23:24Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 AAmos 9:2-4If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in 1I.e. the nether worldSheol, behold, BJob 26:6; Prov 15:11You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will APs 23:2, 3lead me,
And Your right hand will lay hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the AJob 22:13darkness will 1Lit bruise; some commentators read coveroverwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”
And the night is as bright as the day.
B1 John 1:5Darkness and light are alike to You.
You BJob 10:11wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for 1Some ancient versions read You are fearfully wonderfulI am fearfully and wonderfully made;
APs 40:5Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the BPs 63:9depths of the earth;
16 Your AJob 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in BPs 56:8Your book were all written
The CJob 14:5days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
17 How precious also are Your APs 40:5; 92:5thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would APs 40:5outnumber the sand.
When BPs 3:5I awake, I am still with You.
19 O that You would AIs 11:4slay the wicked, O God;
BPs 6:8; 119:115Depart from me, therefore, CPs 5:6; 26:9men of bloodshed.
And Your enemies 2Some mss read lift themselves up against YouBEx 20:7; Deut 5:11take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not A2 Chr 19:2; Ps 26:5; 31:6hate those who hate You, O Loʀᴅ?
And do I not BPs 119:158loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
23 AJob 31:6; Ps 26:2Search me, O God, and know my heart;
BPs 7:9; Prov 17:3; Jer 11:20; 1 Thess 2:4Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there be any 1Lit way of painAPs 146:9; Prov 15:9; 28:10; Jer 25:5; 36:3hurtful way in me,
And BPs 5:8; 143:10lead me in the CPs 16:11everlasting way.
A139:1 Ps 17:3; 44:21; Jer 12:3
1139:2 Lit my sitting
2139:2 Lit my rising
B139:2 Ps 94:11; Is 66:18; Matt 9:4
1139:3 Lit winnow
2139:3 Or journeying
1139:4 Lit For there is not
1139:8 I.e. the nether world
1139:11 Lit bruise; some commentators read cover
1139:12 Lit from
1139:13 Lit kidneys
1139:14 Some ancient versions read You are fearfully wonderful
1139:15 Lit bones were
A139:15 Job 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5
A139:16 Job 10:8-10; Eccl 11:5
A139:20 Jude 15
1139:20 Or of
2139:20 Some mss read lift themselves up against You
A139:21 2 Chr 19:2; Ps 26:5; 31:6
B139:23 Ps 7:9; Prov 17:3; Jer 11:20; 1 Thess 2:4
1139:24 Lit way of pain
A139:24 Ps 146:9; Prov 15:9; 28:10; Jer 25:5; 36:3