1 Lord, you have searched me and known me.  *

2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up;

you understand my thoughts from far away.  *

3 You observe my travels and my rest;

you are aware of all my ways.  *

4 Before a word is on my tongue,

you know all about it,  Lord.  *

5 You have encircled me;

you have placed your hand on me.  *

6 This wondrous knowledge is beyond me.

It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.  *

7 Where can I go to escape your Spirit?

Where can I flee from your presence?  *

8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;  *

if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.  *

9 If I fly on the wings of the dawn

and settle down on the western horizon,  *

10 even there your hand will lead me;

your right hand will hold on to me.  *

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me,

and the light around me will be night"  *  —

12 even the darkness is not dark to you.

The night shines like the day;

darkness and light are alike to you.  *

13 For it was you who created my inward parts;  *

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  *

14 I will praise you

because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.  *,*

Your works are wondrous,

and I know this very well.  *

15 My bones were not hidden from you

when I was made in secret,

when I was formed in the depths of the earth.  *

16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;

all my days were written in your book and planned

before a single one of them began.  *

17 God, how precious  * your thoughts are to me;

how vast their sum is!

18 If I counted them,

they would outnumber the grains of sand;  *

when I wake up,  * I am still with you.  *

19 God, if only you would kill the wicked —

you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me  *  —

20 who invoke you deceitfully.

Your enemies swear by you falsely.  *

21 Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you,

and detest those who rebel against you?

22 I hate them with extreme hatred;

I consider them my enemies.  *

23 Search me, God, and know my heart;

test me and know my concerns.  *

24 See if there is any offensive  *  way in me;

lead me in the everlasting way.  *