You Have Searched Me and Known Me

1(138:1) For the end, a Psalm of David.O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me.

2(138:2) Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.

3(138:3) Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.

4(138:4) For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

5(138:5) the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me.

6(138:6) The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it.

7(138:7) Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?

8(138:8) If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.

9(138:9) If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain,

10(138:10) for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.

11(138:11) When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury.

12(138:12) For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to thee.

13(138:13) For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother's womb.

14(138:14) I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows it well.

15(138:15) My bones, which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.

16(138:16) Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.

17(138:17) But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.

18(138:18) I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.

19(138:19) Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood.

20(138:20) For thou wilt say concerning their thought, that they shall take thy cities in vain.

21(138:21) Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies?

22(138:22) I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.

23(138:23) Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;

24(138:24) and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.