✧For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. ✧2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. ✧3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. ✧4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. ✧5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. ✧6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. ✧7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? ✧8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. ✧9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, ✧10even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. ✧11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— ✧12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You. ✧13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. ✧14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. ✧15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. ✧16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be. ✧17How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum! ✧18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You. ✧19O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men— ✧20who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain. ✧21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You? ✧22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies. ✧23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. ✧24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.