1<\/sup>Unto the end. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have examined me, and you have known me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>You have known my sitting down and my rising up again.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>You have understood my thoughts from afar. My path and my fate, you have investigated.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. It has been reinforced, and I am not able to prevail against it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Where will I go from your Spirit? And where will I flee from your face?<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>If I assume my feathers in early morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea,<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>even there, your hand will lead me forth, and your right hand will hold me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>And I said: Perhaps darkness will overwhelm me, and the night will be my illumination, to my delight.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>But darkness will not be impenetrable to you, and night will illuminate like the day: for just as its darkness is, so also is its light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, and my substance is in accord with the lower parts of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>Your eyes saw my imperfection, and all this shall be written in your book. Days will be formed, and no one shall be in them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>But to me, O God, your friends have been greatly honored. Their first ruler has been exceedingly strengthened.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>I will number them, and they will be more numerous than the sand. I rose up, and I am still with you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>O God, if only you would cut down sinners. You men of blood: depart from me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>For you say in thought: They will accept your cities in vain.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Have I not hated those who hated you, Lord, and wasted away because of your enemies?<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>I have hated them with a perfect hatred, and they have become enemies to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Question me, and know my paths.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>And see if there might be in me the way of iniquity, and lead me in the way of eternity.<\/span> <\/p>\n