1. O lord, you have examined my heartand know everything about me.
2. You know when I sit down or stand up.You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3. You see me when I traveland when I rest at home.You know everything I do.
4. You know what I am going to sayeven before I say it, lord.
5. You go before me and follow me.You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too great for me to understand!
7. I can never escape from your Spirit!I can never get away from your presence!
8. If I go up to heaven, you are there;if I go down to the grave, you are there.
9. If I ride the wings of the morning,if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10. even there your hand will guide me,and your strength will support me.
11. I could ask the darkness to hide meand the light around me to become night—
12. but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.To you the night shines as bright as day.Darkness and light are the same to you.
13. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my bodyand knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.