[2] You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.
[3] You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
[4] For there is not a word in my tongue, but, see, O LORD, 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 cannot 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 hell, behold, you are there.
[9] If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
[10] Even there shall your hand lead me, and your 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 hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
[13] For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb.
[14] I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
[15] My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth.
[16] Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, 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 bloody men.
[20] For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
[21] Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
[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 be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
