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13I will thank you because I am marvelously made; *
your works are wonderful, and I know it well.

14My body was not hidden from you, *
while I was being made in secret
and woven in the depths of the earth.

15Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb;
all of them were written in your book; *
they were fashioned day by day,
when as yet there was none of them.

16How deep I find your thoughts, O God! *
how great is the sum of them!

17If I were to count them, they would be more in number than the sand; *
to count them all, my life span would need to be like yours.

18Oh, that you would slay the wicked, O God! *
You that thirst for blood, depart from me.

19They speak despitefully against you; *
your enemies take your Name in vain.

20Do I not hate those, O Lord, who hate you? *
and do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

21I hate them with a perfect hatred; *
they have become my own enemies.

22Search me out, O God, and know my heart; *
try me and know my restless thoughts.

23Look well whether there be any wickedness in me *
and lead me in the way that is everlasting.

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