Psalms

¹ God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.

² even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.

³ I'm never out of your sight.

⁴ before I start the first sentence.

⁵ then up ahead and you're there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going.

⁶ I can't take it all in!

⁷ to be out of your sight?

⁸ If I go underground, you're there!

⁹ to the far western horizon,

¹⁰ you're already there waiting!

¹¹ At night I'm immersed in the light!"

¹² night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.

¹³ you formed me in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation!

¹⁵ you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

¹⁶ all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.

¹⁷ God, I'll never comprehend them!

¹⁸ any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

¹⁹ And you murderers—out of here!—

²⁰ infatuated with cheap god-imitations.

²¹ see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;

²² Your enemies are my enemies!

²³ find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about;

²⁴ then guide me on the road to eternal life.