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¹ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O Yahweh, you have searched me, and known [me].² You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought far off.³ You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, But, look, O Yahweh, you know it altogether.⁵ You have beset me behind and before, And laid your hand on me.⁶ [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I can't attain to it.

⁷ Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: If I make my bed in Sheol, look, 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 lead me, And your right hand shall hold me.¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;¹² Even the darkness does not hide from you, But the night shines as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to you].¹³ For you formed my inward parts: You covered me in my mother's womb.¹⁴ I will give thanks to you; because of your awesome works, I am distinguished: Wonderful are your works; And my soul knows that very well.¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.¹⁶ Your eyes saw me developing from conception; And in your book they were all written, [Even] the days that were formed [for me], When as yet there was none of them.

¹⁷ How precious also are your thoughts to 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 you.¹⁹ Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, you bloodthirsty men.²⁰ For they speak against you wickedly, And your enemies are lifted up in vain.²¹ Don't I hate them, O Yahweh, that hate you? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against you?²² I hate them with perfect hatred: They have become my enemies.²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;²⁴ And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.