14. I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well.
15. My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery].
16. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.
17. How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! [Ps. 40:5.]
18. If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.
19. If You would [only] slay the wicked, O God, and the men of blood depart from me–[Isa. 11:4.]
20. Who speak against You wickedly, Your enemies who take Your name in vain! [Jude 15.]
21. Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? And am I not grieved and do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22. I hate them with perfect hatred; they have become my enemies.
23. Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
24. And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.