Search Me, O God, and Know My
Heart
Search me, O God, and know my
heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!
O Lord, you
have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you
discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are
acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O
Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your
hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot
attain it.
Where shall I go from your
Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you
are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the
morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall
lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness
shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark
to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
For you formed my inward
parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful
are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when
I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your
eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the
days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious
to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count
them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
Search me, O God, and know my
heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting!