9. If I take the wings of dawnand dwell beyond the sea,
10. Even there your hand guides me,your right hand holds me fast.
11. If I say, “Surely darkness shall hide me,and night shall be my light”—
12. Darkness is not dark for you,and night shines as the day.Darkness and light are but one.
13. You formed my inmost being;you knit me in my mother’s womb.
14. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made;wonderful are your works!My very self you know.
15. My bones are not hidden from you,When I was being made in secret,fashioned in the depths of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw me unformed;in your book all are written down;my days were shaped, before one came to be.
17. How precious to me are your designs, O God;how vast the sum of them!
18. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sands;when I complete them, still you are with me.
19. When you would destroy the wicked, O God,the bloodthirsty depart from me!
20. Your foes who conspire a plot against youare exalted in vain.