1 To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

1 耶和华啊！ 你鉴察了我， 你认识我。（本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题） 2 我坐下， 我起来， 你都知道； 你在远处就明白我的意念。 3 我行路， 我躺卧， 你都细察； 我的一切行为， 你都熟悉。 4 耶和华啊！ 我的舌头还没有发言， 你已经完全知道了。 5 你在我前后围绕着我， 你的手按在我身上。 6 这样的知识奇妙， 是我不能理解的； 高超， 是我不能达到的。 7 我到哪里去躲避你的灵？我往哪里去逃避你的面呢？ 8 如果我升到天上， 你在那里； 如果我在阴间下榻， 你也在那里。 9 如果我展开清晨的翅膀， 飞到海的极处居住， 10 就是在那里， 你的手仍必引导我， 你的右手也必扶持我。 11 如果我说： "愿黑暗遮盖我， 愿我周围的亮光变成黑夜。" 12 但对你来说， 黑暗也不算是黑暗， 黑夜必如同白昼一样发亮， 黑暗和光明， 在你看来都是一样的。 13 我的脏腑是你所造的， 在我母腹中你塑造了我。 14 我要称谢你， 因为我的受造奇妙可畏； 你的作为奇妙， 这是我深深知道的。 15 我在隐密处被造， 在地的深处被塑造， 那时， 我的形体不能向你隐藏。 16 我未成形的身体， 你的眼睛早已看见； 为我所定的日子， 我还未度过一日， 都完全记在你的册上了。 17 神啊！ 你的意念对我多么珍贵（"珍贵"或译： "深奥"）， 数目何等众多。 18 如果我数点， 它们比海沙更多； 我睡醒的时候， 仍然与你同在。 19 神啊！ 甚愿你杀戮恶人； 你们流人血的啊， 离开我去吧！ 20 他们恶意说话顶撞你， 你的仇敌妄称你的名。 21 耶和华啊！ 恨恶你的， 我怎能不恨恶他们呢？起来攻击你的， 我怎能不厌恶他们呢？ 22 我极度恨恶他们， 把他们视为我的仇敌。 23 神啊！ 求你鉴察我， 知道我的心思； 试验我， 知道我的意念。 24 看看我里面有什么恶行没有， 引导我走永恒的道路。