To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, you have *Jer. 12:3;See Ps. 7:9;17:3;44:21searched me and known me!

2 You *2 Kgs. 19:27;Lam. 3:63know when I sit down and when I rise up;

you *[Job 14:16;31:4;Matt. 9:4;John 2:24,25]discern my thoughts from afar.

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,

behold, O Lord, *Heb. 4:13you know it altogether.

5 You *Job 19:8hem me in, behind and before,

and *Job 9:33lay your hand upon me.

6 *Rom. 11:33Such knowledge is *Job 42:3too wonderful for me;

it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 *[Jer. 23:24] Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Or where *Jonah 1:3shall I flee from your presence?

8 *[Amos 9:2] If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

*[Job 26:6]If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall *ver. 24;Ps. 23:3lead me,

and your right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, *[Job 22:14]"Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light about me be night,"

12 *Job 34:22;[Dan. 2:22]even the darkness is not dark to you;

the night is bright as the day,

for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you *Deut. 32:6formed my inward parts;

you *[Job 10:11]knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.*139:14 Or for I am fearfully set apart

*See Ps. 72:18Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.

15 *[Job 10:8-10;Eccles. 11:5] My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in *Ps. 63:9the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your *Ps. 56:8book were written, every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.

17 How precious to me are your *Ps. 92:5thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18 *Ps. 40:5If I would count them, they are more than *Gen. 22:17the sand.

I awake, and I am still with you.

19 Oh that you would *Isa. 11:4;[Ps. 9:17] slay the wicked, O God!

O *Ps. 5:6men of blood, *See Ps. 6:8depart from me!

20 They *[Jude 15] speak against you with malicious intent;

your enemies *Ex. 20:7take your name in vain.*139:20 Hebrew lacks your name

21 *See Ps. 26:5Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?

And do I not *Ps. 119:158loathe those who *Ps. 59:1rise up against you?

22 I hate them with complete hatred;

I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!

*Ps. 26:2Try me and know my thoughts!*139:23 Or cares

24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and *ver. 10lead me in *[Jer. 6:16;18:15]the way everlasting!*139:24 Or in the ancient way (compare Jeremiah 6:16)