1O Jehovah, you have searched me and you know me. 2You know when I sit down and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar. 3You inspect my path and my lying down. You are intimately acquainted with my ways. 4Even before I speak words from my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, You know it all. 5You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. 6Knowing this is too wonderful for me! It is too high, I cannot attain to it. 7Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? 8If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in the grave, behold, you are there. 9If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, 10Even there your hand will lead me. Your right hand will lay hold of me. 11If I say: »Certainly the darkness will overwhelm me!« Then the light around me will be night. 12Even the darkness is not dark to you. And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to you. 13For you formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb. 14I will praise you, for in an awesome way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and I know this very well. 15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth. 16Your eyes saw my embryo and all were written in your book; the days ordained for me. Even this before one had taken place. 17How precious are your thoughts to me, O God! How numerous is the sum of them! 18If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with you. 19If you would destroy the wicked, O God, depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. 20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. 21Do I not hate those who hate You, O Jehovah? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22I hate them with the utmost hatred! They have become my enemies. 23Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious troubledpainfuldisturbing thoughts. 24See if there is any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.