^7 (A)Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
^8 (B)If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
^(C)If I make my bed in ^[a]hell, behold, You are there.
⁹ If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
¹⁰ Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall ^[b]fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
¹² Indeed, ^(D)the darkness ^[c]shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

¹³ For You formed my inward parts;
You ^[d]covered me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You, for ^[e]I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
^15 (E)My ^[f]frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶ Your 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.

^17 (F)How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
¹⁸ If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.

¹⁹ Oh, that You would ^(G)slay the wicked, O God!
^(H)Depart from me, therefore, you ^[g]bloodthirsty men.
²⁰ For they ^(I)speak against You wickedly;
^[h]Your enemies take Your name in vain.
^21 (J)Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?

²³ “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God afar off?