1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
1 Vir die musiekleier. 'n Psalm van Dawid. HERE, U deurgrond en ken my.
2 U ken my sit en my opstaan; U verstaan van ver my gedagte.
3 U deurvors my gaan en my lê, en U is met al my weë goed bekend.
4 Want daar is nog geen woord op my tong nie -- of U, HERE, U ken dit geheel en al.
5 U sluit my in van agter en van voor, en U lê u hand op my.
6 Om dit te begryp, is te wonderbaar vir my, te hoog: ek kan daar nie by nie.
7 Waar sou ek heengaan van u Gees en waarheen vlug van u aangesig?
8 Klim ek op na die hemel, U is daar; en maak ek die doderyk my bed, kyk, U is daar!
9 Neem ek die vleuels van die dageraad, gaan ek by die uiteinde van die see woon,
10 ook daar sou u hand my lei en u regterhand my vashou.
11 En as ek sê: Mag tog net die duisternis my oorval en die lig nag wees tot my beskutting,
12 dan is selfs die duisternis vir U nie donker nie, en die nag gee lig soos die dag, die duisternis is soos die lig.
13 Want U het my niere gevorm, my in my moeder se skoot geweef.
14 Ek loof U, omdat ek so vreeslik wonderbaar is; wonderbaar is u werke! En my siel weet dit alte goed.
15 My gebeente was vir U nie verborge toe ek in die geheim gemaak is nie, kunstig geweef in die dieptes van die aarde.
16 U oë het my ongevormde klomp gesien; en in u boek is hulle almal opgeskrywe: dae dat alles bepaal was, toe nog geeneen van hulle daar was nie.
17 Hoe kosbaar is dan vir my u gedagtes, o God! Hoe geweldig is hulle volle som nie!
18 Wil ek hulle tel, hulle is meer as die sand; word ek wakker, dan is ek nog by U.
19 o God, as U tog maar die goddelose wou ombring! En julle manne van bloed, gaan van my af weg!
20 Hulle wat arglistig teen U spreek, u Naam ydellik verhef -- u teëstanders!
21 HERE, sou ek die nie haat wat vir U haat, en 'n afsku hê van die wat teen U opstaan nie?
22 Ek haat hulle met 'n volkome haat; vyande is hulle vir my!
23 Deurgrond my, o God, en ken my hart; toets my en ken my gedagtes;
24 en kyk of daar by my 'n weg is van smart, en lei my op die ewige weg!