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Psalm 139:8-21 English Standard Version (ESV)

8. If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9. If I take the wings of the morningand dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10. even there your hand shall lead me,and your right hand shall hold me.

11. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,and the light about me be night,”

12. even the darkness is not dark to you;the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with you.

13. For you formed my inward parts;you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

14. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well.

15. My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16. Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them,the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them.

17. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!How vast is the sum of them!

18. If I would count them, they are more than the sand.I awake, and I am still with you.

19. Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!O men of blood, depart from me!

20. They speak against you with malicious intent;your enemies take your name in vain.

21. Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

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