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To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

O Lord , you have ^(a)searched me and known me!

You ^(b)know when I sit down and when I rise up; you ^(c)discern my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord , ^(d)you know it altogether.

You ^(e)hem me in, behind and before, and ^(f)lay your hand upon me.

^(g)Such knowledge is ^(h)too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

⁽ⁱ⁾Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where ^(j)shall I flee from your presence?

^(k)If I ascend to heaven, you are there! ^(l)If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

even there your hand shall ^(m)lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, ⁽ⁿ⁾"Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"

^(o)even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

For you ^(p)formed my inward parts; you ^(q)knitted me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.^{[a] (r)}Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

^(s)My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in ^(t)the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your ^(u)book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

How precious to me are your ^(v)thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

^(w)If I would count them, they are more than ^(x)the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Oh that you would ^(y)slay the wicked, O God! O ^(z)men of blood, ^(aa)depart from me!

They ^(ab)speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies ^(ac)take your name in vain.^[b]

^(ad)Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord ? And do I not ^(ae)loathe those who ^(af)rise up against you?

I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart! ^(ag)Try me and know my thoughts!^[c]

And see if there be any grievous way in me, and ^(ah)lead me in ^(ai)the way everlasting!^[d]