^7 (I)Where shall I go from your Spirit?
    Or where ^(J)shall I flee from your presence?
^8 (K)If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
    ^(L)If I make my bed in Sheol, 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 ^(M)lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me.
¹¹ If I say, ^(N)“Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and the light about me be night,”
^12 (O)even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.

¹³ For you ^(P)formed my inward parts;
    you ^(Q)knitted me together in my mother's womb.
¹⁴ I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.^[a]
(R)Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
^15 (S)My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in ^(T)the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your ^(U)book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

¹⁷ How precious to me are your ^(V)thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
^18 (W)If I would count them, they are more than ^(X)the sand.
    I awake, and I am still with you.

¹⁹ Oh that you would ^(Y)slay the wicked, O God!
    O ^(Z)men of blood, ^(AA)depart from me!
²⁰ They ^(AB)speak against you with malicious intent;
    your enemies ^(AC)take your name in vain.^[b]
21 (AD)Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
    And do I not ^(AE)loathe those who ^(AF)rise up against you?
²² I hate them with complete hatred;
    I count them my enemies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart!
    ^(AG)Try me and know my thoughts!^[c]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
    and ^(AH)lead me in ^(AI)the way everlasting!^[d]

⁴ Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
    preserve me from ^(AQ)violent men,
    who have planned to trip up my feet.
⁵ The arrogant have ^(AR)hidden a trap for me,
    and with cords they have spread ^(AS)a net;^[e]
    beside the way they have set ^(AT)snares for me. Selah

^6 (AU)I say to the Lord, You are my God;
    give ear to ^(AV)the voice of my pleas for mercy, O Lord!
⁷ O Lord, my Lord, ^(AW)the strength of my salvation,
    you have covered my head in the day of battle.
^8 (AX)Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
    do not further their^[f] evil plot, or ^(AY)they will be exalted! Selah

⁹ As for the head of those who surround me,
    let ^(AZ)the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
¹⁰ Let ^(BA)burning coals fall upon them!
    Let them be cast into fire,
    into miry pits, no more to rise!
¹¹ Let not the slanderer be established in the land;
    let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

¹² I know that the Lord will ^(BB)maintain the cause of the afflicted,
    and ^(BC)will execute justice for the needy.
¹³ Surely ^(BD)the righteous shall give thanks to your name;
    ^(BE)the upright shall dwell in your presence.

^3 (BJ)Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
    ^(BK)keep watch over the door of my lips!
^4 (BL)Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
    to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who ^(BM)work iniquity,
    and ^(BN)let me not eat of their delicacies!

^5 (BO)Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
    let my head not refuse it.
Yet ^(BP)my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
⁶ When their judges are ^(BQ)thrown over the cliff,^[g]
    then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
⁷ As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
    so shall our bones ^(BR)be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.^[h]

⁸ But ^(BS)my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;
    ^(BT)in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!^[i]
9 Keep me from ^(BU)the trap that they have laid for me
    and from the snares of evildoers!
¹⁰ Let the wicked ^(BV)fall into their own nets,
    while I pass by safely.