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¹ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].² Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, 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 on my tongue, [but] lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.⁶ [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] to it.

⁷ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?⁸ If I ascend 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 Yes, 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: wonderful [are] thy works; and [that] my soul well knoweth.¹⁵ My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, [and] curiously formed in the lowest parts of the earth.¹⁶ Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; 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 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 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] thy 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 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.