Psalms

¹ For the choir director. Of David. A Psalm. O Yahweh, You have searched me and known me.

² You understand my thought from afar.

³ And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all.

⁵ And You have put Your hand upon me.

⁶ It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

⁷ Or where can I flee from Your presence?

⁸ If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

⁹ If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

¹⁰ And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

¹¹ And the light around me will be night,”

¹² And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

¹³ You wove me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

¹⁵ When I was made in secret, And intricately woven in the depths of the earth;

¹⁶ And in Your book all of them were written The days that were formed for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

¹⁷ How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸ When I awake, I am still with You.

¹⁹ O men of bloodshed, depart from me.

²⁰ And Your enemies take Your name in vain.

²¹ And do I not revile those who rise up against You?

²² They have become my enemies.

²³ Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

²⁴ And lead me in the everlasting way.