[1] O Yahweh, You have searched me and known me. [2] You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. [3] You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. [4] Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all. [5] You have enclosed me behind and before, And You have put Your hand upon me. [6] Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it. [7] Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? [8] If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. [9] If I lift up the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, [10] Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. [11] If I say, “Surely the darkness will bruise me, And the light around me will be night,” [12] Even the darkness is not too dark for You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. [13] For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. [14] I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. [15] My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And intricately woven in the depths of the earth; [16] Your eyes have seen my unshaped substance; And in Your book all of them were written The days that were formed for me, When as yet there was not one of them. [17] How precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! [18] If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. [19] Oh that You would slay the wicked, O God! O men of bloodshed, depart from me. [20] For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain. [21] Do I not hate those who hate You, O Yahweh? And do I not revile those who rise up against You? [22] I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies. [23] Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; [24] And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.
