| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. | 1LORD, you have examined me; you have known me. |
| 2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. | 2You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you. |
| 3You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. | 3You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways. |
| 4For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether. | 4Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely! |
| 5You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me. | 5You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me. |
| 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it. | 6Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it. |
| 7Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? | 7Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence? |
| 8If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. | 8If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are! |
| 9If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, | 9If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon |
| 10Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me. | 10your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me. |
| 11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the night shall be light about me; | 11If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night," |
| 12Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You. | 12even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you. |
| 13For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. | 13It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb. |
| 14I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. | 14I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. |
| 15My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. | 15My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth. |
| 16Your 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. | 16Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet. |
| 17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! | 17How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number! |
| 18If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You. | 18Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you. |
| 19Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men. | 19God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me, |
| 20For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain. | 20who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain. |
| 21Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? | 21I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ? |
| 22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. | 22With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies. |
| 23Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; | 23Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts. |
| 24And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. | 24See if there is any offensive tendency in me, and lead me in the eternal way. |
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