Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
O Lord, you have searched me, and you have known me.
You know when I sit down or rise, understanding my thought from afar.
You sift through my path and my lying down, acquainted with all my ways.
Before there's a word on my tongue, behold, Lord, you know it all.
Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
Behind and before you've enclosed me, and laid your hand on me.
Such knowledge, it is too wonderful, too high for me to attain.
O where can I go from your Spirit?
Or where can I flee your presence?
If I rise up to heaven, you are there.
If I lay in Sheol, you are there.
Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell at the ends of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me.
Your right hand lay whole on me.
If I say, surely darkness will overwhelm, and the light around me will be night.
The dark is not dark, the night bright as day.
The darkness and light are alike to you.
Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
You formed my innermost heart, and you nipped me in my mother's womb.
Therefore I will give thanks to you.
I am fearfully and wondrously made.
How wonderful are your works!
My soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret.
Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
Woven in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed substance.
In your book my days were all written, when as yet there was not one of them.
How precious, O God, are your thoughts to me!
Oh, how vast the sum of them!
Their count would outnumber the sand.
When I wake, I am still with you.
Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
Won't you slay the wicked, O God?
Leave me, you men of bloodshed, for they wickedly speak out against you.
Your foes exalt in falsehood.
Do I not hate, O Lord, those who hate you?
Do I not despise their uprising?
I hate them with uttermost hatred, and they've become my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart.
Examine me, and know my thoughts.
Oh, see there be within me any hurtful way, and may you always guide me in the
way everlasting.