For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb.

To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know.

I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? and whither from thy face shall I flee?

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts:

Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them.

Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of

And to me how were thy thoughts precious, O God! how were their heads strong!

My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth.

Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways.

If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee.

Shall I lift up the wings of the dawn? shall I dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea?

Knowledge being wonderful from me; being high, I shall not be able for it

And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me.

For not a word in my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it

Thou didst press me behind and before, and thou wilt place thine hand upon me.

Shall I not hate those hating thee, O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against those rising up against thee.

Also there thy hand will guide me, and thy right hand will hold me.

Also darkness shall not darken from thee; and the night shall shine as the day: as the darkness, so the light

Surely thou wilt kill the unjust one, O God: and ye men of bloods, depart from me.

And see if the way of pain is in me, and guide me in the eternal way.

I hated them with completeness of hatred: they were to me for enemies.

I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee.

For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity.