⁷ Where can I go to escape your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?^(G)
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;^(H)
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.^(I)
9 If I fly on the wings of the dawn
and settle down on the western horizon,^[a]
10 even there your hand will lead me;
your right hand will hold on to me.^(J)
11 If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night’^(K) –
¹² even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to you.^(L)

¹³ For it was you who created my inward parts;^[b]
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.^(M)
14 I will praise you
because I have been remarkably and wondrously made.^[c][d]
Your works are wondrous,
and I know this very well.^(N)
15 My bones were not hidden from you
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.^(O)
16 Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in your book and planned
before a single one of them began.^(P)

¹⁷ God, how precious^[e] your thoughts are to me;
how vast their sum is!
¹⁸ If I counted them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand;^(Q)
when I wake up,^[f] I am still with you.^(R)

¹⁹ God, if only you would kill the wicked –
you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me^(S) –
²⁰ who invoke you deceitfully.
Your enemies swear by you falsely.^(T)
21 Lord, don’t I hate those who hate you,
and detest those who rebel against you?
²² I hate them with extreme hatred;
I consider them my enemies.^(U)

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.^(V)
24 See if there is any offensive^[g] way in me;
lead me in the everlasting way.^(W)