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 stay 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, And the light about me will 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 knit me together 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 who rise up against you?