| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1LORD, you have examined me; you have known me. | 1For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. |
| 2You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you. | 2You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. |
| 3You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways. | 3You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. |
| 4Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely! | 4Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all. |
| 5You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me. | 5You have enclosed me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. |
| 6Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it. | 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it. |
| 7Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence? | 7Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? |
| 8If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are! | 8If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. |
| 9If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon | 9If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, |
| 10your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me. | 10Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. |
| 11If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night," | 11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night," |
| 12even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you. | 12Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You. |
| 13It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb. | 13For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. |
| 14I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. | 14I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. |
| 15My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth. | 15My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; |
| 16Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet. | 16Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. |
| 17How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number! | 17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! |
| 18Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you. | 18If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. |
| 19God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me, | 19O that You would slay the wicked, O God; Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed. |
| 20who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain. | 20For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain. |
| 21I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ? | 21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? |
| 22With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies. | 22I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies. |
| 23Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts. | 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; |
| 24See if there is any offensive tendency in me, and lead me in the eternal way. | 24And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. |
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