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

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

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

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

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

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

^{7 Ref} Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

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

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

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

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

^{12 Ref} Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.