O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit and when I rise. You know my thoughts even when I am far away. You know when I travel and when I rest at home, you know everything I do. You know what I am going to say before I say it Lord. You go before me and you follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such thoughts are too wonderful for me too great for me to understand. I cannot escape your spirit! I can never run away from your presence! If I go up to heaven you are there! If I go down to the grave you are there! If I ride on the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me. I could ask the light around me to become night, but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. Search me oh God! Test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.