1. O Lord, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me.
2. You know my downsitting and my uprising; You understand my thought afar off. [Matt. 9:4; John 2:24, 25.]
3. You sift and search out my path and my lying down, and You are acquainted with all my ways.
4. For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. [Heb. 4:13.]
5. You have beset me and shut me in–behind and before, and You have laid Your hand upon me.
6. Your [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above me, I cannot reach it.
7. Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence?
8. If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there. [Rom. 11:33.]
9. If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10. Even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.