1 Yahweh, you have searched me,
and you know me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
6 This knowledge is beyond me.
It’s lofty.
I can’t attain it.
7 Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.
The light around me will be night,"
12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
13 For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my body.
In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum!
18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred.
They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
24 See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.
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!