1. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2. You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar.
3. You search out my path and my lying downand are acquainted with all my ways.
4. Even before a word is on my tongue,behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5. You hem me in, behind and before,and lay your hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;it is high; I cannot attain it.
7. Where shall I go from your Spirit?Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8. If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9. If I take the wings of the morningand dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10. even there your hand shall lead me,and your right hand shall hold me.
11. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,and the light about me be night,”
12. even the darkness is not dark to you;the night is bright as the day,for darkness is as light with you.
13. For you formed my inward parts;you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well.
15. My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them,the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them.
17. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!How vast is the sum of them!