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Psalm 138 📜 📕 ↷
A Thankful Heart
1 UNTO the end, a Psalm of David. Lord thou hast proved me, and hast known me:📜💬📚
2 thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.📜💬📚
3 Thou hast understood my cogitations far off: my path, and my cord thou hast searched out.📜💬📚
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: because there is not a word in my tongue.📜💬📚
5 Behold, o Lord, thou hast known all the last things, & them of old: thou hast formed me, and hast put thy hand upon me.📜💬📚
6 Thy knowledge is become marvelous of me: it is made great, and I can not reach to it.📜💬📚
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? And whither shall I fly from thy face?📜💬📚
8 If I shall ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.📜💬📚
9 If I shall take my wings early, and dwell in the extreme parts of the sea.📜💬📚
10 Certes thither also shall thy hand conduct me: and thy right hand shall hold me.📜💬📚
11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall tread over me: and the night is mine illumination in my delights.📜💬📚
12 For darkness shall not be darkened from thee, and the night shall be lightened as the day: as the darkness thereof, so also the light thereof.📜💬📚
13 Because thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast received me from my mother's womb.📜💬📚
14 I will confess to thee, because thou art terribly magnified: thy works are marvelous, & my soul knoweth exceedingly.📜💬📚
15 My bone is not hid from thee, which thou madest in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.📜💬📚
16 Mine imperfection thine eyes have seen, & in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, & no man in them.📜💬📚
17 But to me thy friends, o God, are become honourable exceedingly: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.📜💬📚
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and I am yet with thee.📜💬📚
19 If thou shalt kill sinners, o God: ye men of blood depart from me.📜💬📚
20 Because you say in thought: they shall receive thy cities in vain.📜💬📚
21 Did not I hate them that hate thee, o Lord: and pined away because of thine enemies?📜💬📚
22 with perfect hatred did I hate them: they are become enemies to me.📜💬📚
23 Prove me, o God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.📜💬📚
24 And see, if the way of iniquity be in me: and conduct me in the everlasting way.📜💬📚
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