1 - ?For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.?
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,
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.