| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. | 1O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. |
| 2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. | 2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. |
| 3You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. | 3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. |
| 4For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether. | 4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD. |
| 5You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. | 5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. |
| 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it. | 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! |
| 7Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? | 7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! |
| 8If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. | 8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. |
| 9If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, | 9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, |
| 10Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me. | 10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. |
| 11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the night shall be light about me; | 11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— |
| 12Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You. | 12but 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. |
| 13For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. | 13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. |
| 14I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. | 14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. |
| 15My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. | 15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. |
| 16Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. | 16You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. |
| 17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! | 17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! |
| 18If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You. | 18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! |
| 19Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men. | 19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! |
| 20For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain. | 20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. |
| 21Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? | 21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? |
| 22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. | 22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. |
| 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; | 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. |
| 24And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. | 24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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