Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart
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)