For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
LORD, you have searched me, Heb 4:13Jer 12:3Jer 17:9-10Psa 44:21Psa 17:3Psa 139:231Ch 28:91Ki 8:39
and you know me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up. Mat 9:42Ki 19:27Isa 37:28Luk 9:47Psa 94:11Jhn 2:24-25Pro 15:3Psa 56:8
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down, Jer 23:24Job 31:4Gen 28:10-17Pro 5:20-212Sa 11:272Sa 12:9-12Ecc 12:14Psa 121:3-8
and are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue, Heb 4:12-13Psa 19:14Psa 50:19-21Job 42:3Mat 12:35-37Jas 1:26Jer 29:23Job 42:6-8
but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.
You hem me in behind and before. Psa 34:7Deu 33:27Rev 1:17Job 23:8-9Exo 24:11Job 9:33
You laid your hand on me.
This knowledge is beyond me. Rom 11:33Job 42:3Job 11:7-9Job 26:14Psa 40:5Pro 30:2-4Psa 13:1
It’s lofty.
I can’t attain it.
Where could I go from your Spirit? Jer 23:23-24Jon 1:3Jon 1:10Act 5:9
Or where could I flee from your presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. Amo 9:2-4Job 34:21-22Jon 2:2Oba 1:4Pro 15:11Job 26:6Ezk 28:12-17
If I make my bed in Sheol, 1 behold, you are there!
If I take the wings of the dawn, Psa 19:6Psa 74:16-17Mal 4:2Isa 24:14-16Psa 18:10
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand will lead me, Psa 23:3Isa 41:13Psa 73:23Psa 63:8Psa 143:9-10
and your right hand will hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. Job 12:22Jer 23:24Psa 94:7Job 22:12-14Psa 10:11-13Isa 29:15
The light around me will be night,”
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, Dan 2:22Job 34:22Exo 20:21Heb 4:13Job 26:6Exo 14:20
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
For you formed my inmost being. Jer 1:5Psa 119:73Isa 44:2Job 31:15Job 10:9-12Psa 22:9-10Psa 71:6Isa 46:3
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to you, Gen 1:26-27Psa 111:2Psa 104:24Psa 92:4-5Psa 40:5Job 5:9Rev 15:3
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
My frame wasn’t hidden from you, Ecc 11:5Psa 139:13Job 10:8-11Psa 63:9Eph 4:9Exo 11:5
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my body. Psa 56:8Mal 3:16Rev 20:12
In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! Psa 40:5Jer 29:11Isa 55:8-9Psa 92:5Psa 36:7Eph 3:9-10Psa 31:19Pro 8:31
How vast is their sum!
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. Psa 3:5Psa 139:3Psa 40:51Th 5:10Psa 16:8-11Psa 17:15Psa 63:6-7Dan 12:2
When I wake up, I am still with you.
If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Psa 119:115Psa 5:6Isa 11:4Psa 6:8Psa 9:172Co 6:17Psa 55:23Psa 64:7
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
For they speak against you wickedly. Jud 1:15Exo 20:7Psa 74:18Isa 37:23Isa 37:28-29Psa 2:1-3Psa 73:8-9Psa 74:22-23
Your enemies take your name in vain.
LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Psa 119:158Psa 31:6Rev 2:22Ch 19:2Psa 26:5Rev 2:6Jer 13:17Luk 19:41
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
I hate them with perfect hatred. Luk 14:26Psa 101:3-8
They have become my enemies.
Search me, God, and know my heart. Psa 26:2Job 31:61Pe 1:7Pro 17:3Deu 8:2Psa 139:1Zec 13:9Jer 11:20
Try me, and know my thoughts.
See if there is any wicked way in me, Psa 143:10Jer 17:9-10Psa 25:8-9Psa 119:32Psa 16:11Psa 5:8Pro 28:26Psa 143:8
and lead me in the everlasting way.