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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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O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down,
And art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue,
But, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before,
And laid thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me,
And thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me;
Even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; But the night shineth as the day:
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

For thou hast possessed my reins:
Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

My substance was not hid from thee,
When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;
And in thy book all my members were written,
Which in continuance were fashioned,
When as yet there was none of them.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
When I awake, I am still with thee.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:
Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly,
And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee?
And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred:
I count them mine enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart:
Try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.

వినండి Psalm 139