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Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
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If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there.^(A)
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If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
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Even there Your hand will lead me,
And Your right hand will take hold of me.
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,
And the night will be the only light around me,”
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Even the darkness is not dark to You and conceals nothing from You,
But the night shines as bright as the day;
Darkness and light are alike to You.^(B)

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For You formed my innermost parts;
You knit me [together] in my mother’s womb.
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I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
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My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was being formed in secret,
And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.
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Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were appointed for me,
When as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape].

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How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!^(C)
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If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

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The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes see, His eyelids test the children of men.^(A)