1 Al Músico principal: Salmo de David. OH Jehová, tú me has examinado y conocido.2 Tú has conocido mi sentarme y mi levantarme, Has entendido desde lejos mis pensamientos.3 Mi senda y mi acostarme has rodeado, Y estás impuesto en todos mis caminos.4 Pues aun no está la palabra en mi lengua, Y he aquí, oh Jehová, tú la sabes toda.5 Detrás y delante me guarneciste, Y sobre mí pusiste tu mano.6 Más maravillosa es la ciencia que mi capacidad; Alta es, no puedo comprenderla.7 ¿Adónde me iré de tu espíritu? ¿Y adónde huiré de tu presencia?8 Si subiere á los cielos, allí estás tú: Y si en abismo hiciere mi estrado, he aquí allí tú estás.9 Si tomare las alas del alba, Y habitare en el extremo de la mar,10 Aun allí me guiará tu mano, Y me asirá tu diestra.11 Si dijere: Ciertamente las tinieblas me encubrirán; Aun la noche resplandecerá tocante á mí.12 Aun las tinieblas no encubren de ti, Y la noche resplandece como el día: Lo mismo te son las tinieblas que la luz.13 Porque tú poseiste mis riñones; Cubrísteme en el vientre de mi madre.14 Te alabaré; porque formidables, maravillosas son tus obras: Estoy maravillado, Y mi alma lo conoce mucho.15 No fué encubierto de ti mi cuerpo, Bien que en oculto fuí formado, Y compaginado en lo más bajo de la tierra.16 Mi embrión vieron tus ojos, Y en tu libro estaban escritas todas aquellas cosas Que fueron luego formadas, Sin faltar una de ellas.17 Así que ­cuán preciosos me son, oh Dios, tus pensamientos! ­Cuán multiplicadas son sus cuentas!18 Si los cuento, multiplícanse más que la arena: Despierto, y aun estoy contigo.19 De cierto, oh Dios, matarás al impío; Apartaos pues de mí, hombres sanguinarios.20 Porque blasfemias dicen ellos contra ti: Tus enemigos toman en vano tu nombre21 ¿No tengo en odio, oh Jehová, á los que te aborrecen, Y me conmuevo contra tus enemigos?22 Aborrézcolos con perfecto odio; Téngolos por enemigos.23 Examíname, oh Dios, y conoce mi corazón: Pruébame y reconoce mis pensamientos:24 Y ve si hay en mí camino de perversidad, Y guíame en el camino eterno.

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.