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.
11. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me,
12. Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You. [Dan. 2:22.]
13. For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb.