[1] Lord, you have examined me. You know all about me. [2] You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them. [3] You know where I go and where I lie down. You know well everything I do. [4] Lord, even before I say a word, you already know what I am going to say. [5] You are all around me-in front and in back. You have put your hand on me. [6] Your knowledge is amazing to me. It is more than I can understand. [7] Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you? [8] If I go up to the skies, you are there. If I lie down where the dead are, you are there. [9] If I rise with the sun in the east, and settle in the west beyond the sea, [10] even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me. [11] I could say, "The darkness will hide me. The light around me will turn into night." [12] But even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you. [13] You made my whole being. You formed me in my mother's body. [14] I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well. [15] You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother's body. When I was put together there, [16] you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old. [17] God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many! [18] If I could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. [19] God, I wish you would kill the wicked! Get away from me, you murderers! [20] These men say evil things about you. Your enemies use your name thoughtlessly. [21] Lord, I hate those who hate you. I hate those who rise up against you. [22] I feel only hate for them. They are my enemies. [23] God, examine me and know my heart. Test me and know my thoughts. [24] See if there is any bad thing in me. Lead me in the way you set long ago.
