Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

¹O Lord, you have psearched me and known me!

²You qknow when I sit down and when I rise up;

you rdiscern my thoughts from afar.

³You search out my path and my lying down

and are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴Even before a word is on my tongue,

behold, O Lord, syou know it altogether.

⁵You them me in, behind and before,

and ulay your hand upon me.

⁶vSuch knowledge is wtoo wonderful for me;

it is high; I cannot attain it.

⁷xWhere shall I go from your Spirit?

Or where yshall I flee from your presence?

⁸zIf I ascend to heaven, you are there!

aIf I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

⁹If I take the wings of the morning

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰even there your hand shall blead me,

and your right hand shall hold me.

¹¹If I say, c“Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light about me be night,”

¹²deven the darkness is not dark to you;

the night is bright as the day,

for darkness is as light with you.

¹³For you eformed my inward parts;

you fknitted me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.1

gWonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.

¹⁵hMy frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

intricately woven in ithe depths of the earth.

¹⁶Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your jbook were written, every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.