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¹ O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
² You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understand my thought from afar.
³ You search out^[b] my wandering and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ For there is not a word yet on my tongue,
but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.
⁵ You barricade me behind and in front,
and set your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.
It is set high; I cannot prevail against it.
⁷ Where I can go from your Spirit,
or where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I ascend to heaven, there you are,
and if I make my bed in Sheol, look! There you are.
⁹ If I lift up the wings of the dawn,
and I alight on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand would lead me,
and your right hand would hold me fast.
¹¹ And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me,
and the light around me will be as night,"
¹² even the darkness is not too dark for you,^[c]
and the night shines as the day—
the darkness and the light are alike for you.
¹³ Indeed you created my inward parts;^[d]
you wove me in my mother's womb.
¹⁴ I praise you, because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made.^[e]
Wonderful are your works,
and my soul knows it well.
¹⁵ My frame^[f] was not hidden from you,
when I was created secretly,^[g]
and intricately woven
in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo,^[h]
and in your book they all were written—
days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.
¹⁷ And to me, how precious^[i] are your thoughts, O God;
how vast is their sum.
¹⁸ If I should count them,
they would outnumber the sand.
I awaken, and I am still with you.
¹⁹ If only you would kill the wicked, O God—
so get away from me, you bloodthirsty men—^[j]
20 who speak against you deceitfully.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, O Yahweh?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
²² I hate them with a complete hatred;
they have become my enemies.
²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ And see if there is in me the worship of false gods,^[k]
and lead me in the way everlasting.