• Where Can I Go from Your Spirit?

  • 1 O Yahweh, You have searched me and known me.
  • 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.
  • 3 You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
  • 4 Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all.
  • 5 You have enclosed me behind and before, And You have put Your hand upon me.
  • 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
  • 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
  • 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
  • 9 If I lift up the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part 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 the darkness will bruise me, And the light around me will be night,”
  • 12 Even the darkness is not too dark for You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.
  • 13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
  • 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
  • 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And intricately woven in the depths of the earth;
  • 16 Your eyes have seen my unshaped substance; And in Your book all of them were written The days that were formed for me, When as yet there was not one of them.
  • 17 How precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
  • 18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
  • 19 Oh that You would slay the wicked, O God! O men of bloodshed, depart from me.
  • 20 For they speak against You wickedly, And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
  • 21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O Yahweh? And do I not revile those who rise up against You?
  • 22 I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.
  • 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
  • 24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.