| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. | 1For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. LORD, You have searched me and known me. |
| 2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. | 2You know when I sit down and when I stand up; You understand my thoughts from far away. |
| 3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. | 3You observe my travels and my rest; You are aware of all my ways. |
| 4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD. | 4Before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, LORD. |
| 5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. | 5You have encircled me; You have placed Your hand on me. |
| 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! | 6This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it. |
| 7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! | 7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? |
| 8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. | 8If I go up to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. |
| 9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, | 9If I live at the eastern horizon or settle at the western limits, |
| 10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. | 10even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will hold on to me. |
| 11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— | 11If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night"-- |
| 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. | 12even the darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to You. |
| 13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. | 13For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb. |
| 14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. | 14I will praise You because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well. |
| 15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. | 15My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth. |
| 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. | 16Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began. |
| 17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! | 17God, how difficult Your thoughts are for me to comprehend; how vast their sum is! |
| 18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! | 18If I counted them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; when I wake up, I am still with You. |
| 19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! | 19God, if only You would kill the wicked-- you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me-- |
| 20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. | 20who invoke You deceitfully. Your enemies swear by You falsely. |
| 21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? | 21 LORD, don't I hate those who hate You, and detest those who rebel against You? |
| 22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. | 22I hate them with extreme hatred; I consider them my enemies. |
| 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. | 23Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. |
| 24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. | 24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way. |
| 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. | Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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