1To the conductor. Of David. A melody. O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.2You have known my sitting down and my rising up; you have understood my thought from afar.3You have searched out my way and my lying down, and you have made all my ways useful.4For there is no speech on my tongue; look, O LORD, you have known it all.5You have confined me behind and before, and you have set your hand upon me.6Such knowledge is too incomprehensible for me; it is exalted; I am not able to reach it.7Where shall I go from your spirit, and where shall I flee from your face?8If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, look, you are there.9If I take the wings of the dawn and dwell at the end of the sea,10even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall grasp me.11And I say, surely the darkness will bruise me, and the night will be light about me.12Even the darkness is not dark to you, and the night shines like the day; the darkness is like the light to you.13For you formed my inward parts; you wove me together in my mother's womb.14I give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, and my soul knows it well.15My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret, when I was woven in the depths of the earth.16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all were written, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God; how vast is the sum of them.18If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand; when I awake, I am still with you.19If you would slay the wicked, O God, and turn aside the men of blood from me,20who speak of you with malicious intent and lift up your enemies to vanity.21Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and loathe those who rise up against you?22I hate them with perfect hatred; they have become my enemies.23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.24And see if there is any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.