The Eternal Knowledge and Presence of God
1   O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
2   You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.
3   You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4   For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5   You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
6   Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7   Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
8   If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in 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 shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11   If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12   Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
13   For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother's womb.
14   I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully  made:  marvelous  are  your  works; and that my soul knows right well.
15   My frame was not hid from you, when I was made  in  secret,  and  skillfully  wrought  in  the lowest parts of the earth.
16   Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
17   How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18   If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
19   Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
20   For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21   Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22   I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
23   Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24   And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.