^7 (G)Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
^8 (H)If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
^(I)If I make my bed in ^[c]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 ^[d]fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
¹² Indeed, ^(J)the darkness ^[e]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 ^[f]covered me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You, for ^[g]I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
^15 (K)My ^[h]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 (L)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 ^(M)slay the wicked, O God!
^(N)Depart from me, therefore, you ^[i]bloodthirsty men.
²⁰ For they ^(O)speak against You wickedly;
^[j]Your enemies take Your name in vain.
^21 (P)Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
²² I hate them with ^[k]perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.

^23 (Q)Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
²⁴ And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And ^(R)lead me in the way everlasting.

“Where is ^(A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My ^(B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities ^(C)you have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.
² Why, when I came, was there no man?
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Indeed with My ^(D)rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst.
^3 (E)I clothe the heavens with blackness,
^(F)And I make sackcloth their covering.”

⁴ “The^(G) Lord God has given Me
The tongue of the learned,
That I should know how to speak
A word in season to him who is ^(H)weary.
He awakens Me morning by morning,
He awakens My ear
To hear as the learned.
⁵ The Lord God ^(I)has opened My ear;
And I was not ^(J)rebellious,
Nor did I turn away.
^6 (K)I gave My back to those who struck Me,
And ^(L)My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
I did not hide My face from shame and ^(M)spitting.

⁷ “For the Lord God will help Me;
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore ^(N)I have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
^8 (O)He is near who justifies Me;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand together.
Who is ^[a]My adversary?
Let him come near Me.
⁹ Surely the Lord God will help Me;
Who is he who will condemn Me?
^(P)Indeed they will all grow old like a garment;
^(Q)The moth will eat them up.

¹⁰ “Who among you fears the Lord?
Who obeys the voice of His Servant?
Who ^(R)walks in darkness
And has no light?
^(S)Let him trust in the name of the Lord
And rely upon his God.
¹¹ Look, all you who kindle a fire,
Who encircle yourselves with sparks:
Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled—
^(T)This you shall have from My hand:
You shall lie down ^(U)in torment.