⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee^(K) from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens,^(L) you are there;
    if I make my bed^(M) in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,^(N)
    your right hand^(O) will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark^(P) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;^(Q)
    you knit me together^(R) in my mother’s womb.^(S)
14 I praise you^(T) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,^(U)
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made^(V) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together^(W) in the depths of the earth.^(X)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained^(Y) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a](Z) God!^(AA)
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,^(AB)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand^(AC)—
    when I awake,^(AD) I am still with you.

¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!^(AE)
    Away from me,^(AF) you who are bloodthirsty!^(AG)
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries^(AH) misuse your name.^(AI)
21 Do I not hate those^(AJ) who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor^(AK) those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
    I count them my enemies.^(AL)
23 Search me,^(AM) God, and know my heart;^(AN)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way^(AO) in me,
    and lead me^(AP) in the way everlasting.

⁴ Keep me safe,^(AW) Lord, from the hands of the wicked;^(AX)
    protect me from the violent,
    who devise ways to trip my feet.
⁵ The arrogant have hidden a snare^(AY) for me;
    they have spread out the cords of their net^(AZ)
    and have set traps^(BA) for me along my path.

⁶ I say to the Lord, “You are my God.”^(BB)
    Hear, Lord, my cry for mercy.^(BC)
7 Sovereign Lord,^(BD) my strong deliverer,
    you shield my head in the day of battle.
⁸ Do not grant the wicked^(BE) their desires, Lord;
    do not let their plans succeed.

⁹ Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;
    may the mischief of their lips engulf them.^(BF)
10 May burning coals fall on them;
    may they be thrown into the fire,^(BG)
    into miry pits, never to rise.
¹¹ May slanderers not be established in the land;
    may disaster hunt down the violent.^(BH)

¹² I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor^(BI)
    and upholds the cause^(BJ) of the needy.^(BK)
13 Surely the righteous will praise your name,^(BL)
    and the upright will live^(BM) in your presence.^(BN)

³ Set a guard over my mouth,^(BT) Lord;
    keep watch over the door of my lips.^(BU)
4 Do not let my heart^(BV) be drawn to what is evil
    so that I take part in wicked deeds^(BW)
along with those who are evildoers;
    do not let me eat their delicacies.^(BX)

⁵ Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me^(BY)—that is oil on my head.^(BZ)
My head will not refuse it,
    for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

⁶ Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,^(CA)
    and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
⁷ They will say, “As one plows^(CB) and breaks up the earth,^(CC)
    so our bones have been scattered at the mouth^(CD) of the grave.”

⁸ But my eyes are fixed^(CE) on you, Sovereign Lord;
    in you I take refuge^(CF)—do not give me over to death.
⁹ Keep me safe^(CG) from the traps set by evildoers,^(CH)
    from the snares^(CI) they have laid for me.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall^(CJ) into their own nets,
    while I pass by in safety.^(CK)