you have searched me Lord and you know me you know when I sit and when I Rise you perceive my thoughts from afar you discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar with all my ways before a word is on my tongue you Lord know it completely you hem me in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me too lofty for me to attain where can I go from your spirit where can I flee from your presence if I go up to the heavens
you are there if I make my bed in the depths you are there if I rise on the wings of the Dawn if if I settle on the far side of the sea even there your hand will guide me your right hand will hold me fast if I say surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me even the darkness will not be dark to you the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light to you for you created my inmost being you knit me together in in my
mother's womb I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful I know that full well my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed body all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be how precious to me are your thoughts God how vast is the sum of them were I to count them they would outnumber the grains of sand when I
awake I am still with you if only you God would slay the wicked away from me you who are bloodthirsty they speak of you with evil intent your adversaries miss you your name do I not hate those who hate you Lord and upore those who are in Rebellion against you I have nothing but hatred for them I count them my enemies search me God and know my heart test me and know my anxious thoughts see if there is any offensive way in me and Lead Me in the way Everlasting