1 LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.
2 You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.
3 You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways.
4 Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!
5 You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me.
6 Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it.
7 Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence?
8 If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are!
9 If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon
10 your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me.
11 If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night,"
12 even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you.
13 It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it.
15 My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet.
17 How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!
18 Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you.
19 God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,
20 who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.
21 I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ?
22 With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies.