²⁷ But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

⁶ A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

⁸ The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

³ You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

⁵ I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

⁶ Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

⁷ Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

¹⁰ Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

¹¹ If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

²⁸ But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

²⁹ Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

²³ Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?

²⁴ In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.