| 1 | O LORD, you have searched me and known me. |
| 2 | You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. |
| 3 | You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. |
| 4 | Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely. |
| 5 | You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. |
| 6 | Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain 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, you are there. |
| 9 | If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, |
| 10 | even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. |
| 11 | If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,” |
| 12 | even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. |
| 13 | For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. |
| 14 | I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. |
| 15 | My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. |
| 16 | Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. |
| 17 | How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! |
| 18 | I try to count them — they are more than the sand; I come to the end — I am still with you. |
| 19 | O that you would kill the wicked, O God, and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me — |
| 20 | those who speak of you maliciously, and lift themselves up against you for evil! |
| 21 | Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? |
| 22 | I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. |
| 23 | Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. |
| 24 | See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. |