1To the chanter, a Psalm of David. O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me.
2Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off.
3Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways.
4For lo, there is not a word in(i) my tongue, but thou, O LORD, knowest it altogether.
5Thou hast fashioned me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me, I can not attain unto it.
7Whither shall I go then from thy spirit? or, whither shall I go then(flee) from thy presence?
8If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
9If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost(utmost) part of the sea:
10Even there also shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11If I say: peradventure the darkness shall cover me, then shall my night be turned to day.
12Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day, the darkness and light are both alike.
13For my reins are thine, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
14I will give thanks unto thee, for I am wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.
15My bones are not hid from thee, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.
16Thine eyes see mine unperfectness, they stand all written in thy book: my days were fashioned, when as yet there was not one of them.
17How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God? O how great is the sum of them.
18If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand: when I wake up, I am present with thee.
19Wilt thou not slay the wicked (oh God) that the bloodthirsty might depart from me?
20For they speak unright of thee, thine enemies exalt themselves presumptuously.
21I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee: and I may not away with those that rise up against thee?
22Yea I hate them right sore, therefore are they mine enemies.
23Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart: prove me, and examine my thoughts.
24Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.