1 Y ahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

¶ O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.

2 Y ou know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou dost understand my thoughts from afar.

3 Y ou search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Thou hast girded my walk and my rest, and hast prepared all my ways.

4 F or there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

For the word is not even upon my tongue, and, behold, O LORD, thou dost know it altogether.

5 Y ou hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

Thou hast formed my face and my insides and laid thine hand upon me.

6 T his knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Thy knowledge is wonderful beyond my ability to comprehend; it is high, I cannot understand it.

7 W here could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

¶ Where shall I go from thy spirit? or where shall I flee from thy presence?

8 I f I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

If I ascend to the heavens, thou art there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

9 I f I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

If I take the wings of the dawn and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 E ven there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 I f I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night”;

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall shine because of me.

12 e ven the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Even the darkness does not hide from thee; but the night shines as the day; the darkness is as the light.

13 F or you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For thou hast possessed my kidneys: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works, and that, my soul knows right well.

15 M y frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

My body was not hid from thee, even though I was made in secret and brought together in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Y our eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which were then formed, without lacking one of them.

17 H ow precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

¶ Therefore, how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

18 I f I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with thee.

19 I f only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God; depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.

20 F or they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

21 Y ahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

Do I not hate all those, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.

23 S earch me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

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

24 S ee if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.