¹ For the music director: a psalm of David.
Adonai, You searched me and know me.
² Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it.
You discern my thinking from afar.
³ You observe my journeying and my resting
and You are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, Adonai, You know all about it.
⁵ You hemmed me in behind and before,
and laid Your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
⁷ Where can I go from Your Ruach?
Where can I flee from Your presence?
⁸ If I go up to heaven, You are there,
and if I make my bed in Sheol,
look, You are there too.
⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn
and settle on the other side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there Your hand will lead me,
and Your right hand will lay hold of me.
¹¹ If I say: “Surely darkness covers me,
night keeps light at a distance from me,”
¹² even darkness is not dark for You,
    and night is as bright as day—
    darkness and light are alike.
¹³ For You have created my conscience.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise You, for I am awesomely, wonderfully made!
Wonderful are Your works—
and my soul knows that very well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw me when I was unformed,
and in Your book were written the days that were formed—
when not one of them had come to be.
¹⁷ How precious are Your thoughts, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand!
When I awake, I am still with You.