1. O Lord, thou hast me search'd and known.
2. Thou know'st my sitting down,And rising up; yea, all my thoughtsafar to thee are known.
3. My footsteps, and my lying down,thou compassest always;Thou also most entirely artacquaint with all my ways.
4. For in my tongue, before I speak,not any word can be,But altogether, lo, O Lord,it is well known to thee.
5. Behind, before, thou hast beset,and laid on me thine hand.
6. Such knowledge is too strange for me,too high to understand.