1 O LORD, you have
searched me
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 know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid 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, [a] 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 [b] me are your
thoughts, O 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 would slay the
wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil
intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate
you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for
them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O 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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