A Prayer to Deal Damage: Dawn's Wrath
[1] You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
[2] You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
[3] You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
[4] Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
[5] You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
[6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
[7] Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
[8] If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
[9] If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
[10] even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
[11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
[12] even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
[13] For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
[14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
[15] My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
[16] Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
[17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
[18] Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
[19] If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
[20] They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
[21] Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
[22] I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
[23] Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
[24] See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
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Keep the Faith. Best regards,
- The BMS Co., NDSMD
