| Berean Study Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. | 1O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. |
| 2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. | 2You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. |
| 3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. | 3You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. |
| 4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. | 4You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD. |
| 5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. | 5You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. |
| 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. | 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! |
| 7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? | 7I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! |
| 8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. | 8If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. |
| 9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea, | 9If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, |
| 10even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast. | 10even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. |
| 11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— | 11I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— |
| 12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You. | 12but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. |
| 13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. | 13You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. |
| 14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. | 14Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. |
| 15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. | 15You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. |
| 16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be. | 16You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. |
| 17How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum! | 17How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! |
| 18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You. | 18I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! |
| 19O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men— | 19O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! |
| 20who speak of You deceitfully; Your enemies take Your name in vain. | 20They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. |
| 21Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You? | 21O LORD, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? |
| 22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them as my enemies. | 22Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. |
| 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. | 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. |
| 24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting. | 24Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. |
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