oh lord you have searched me and you know me you know when i sit and when i rise you perceive my thoughts from afar you discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar with all my ways before a word is on my tongue you lord know it completely you hem me in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me such knowledge lord is too wonderful for me too lofty for me to attain where can i go from your spirit where can i flee from your presence lord if i go up to the heavens you are there if i make my bed in the depths you are there if i rise on the wings of the dawn if i settle on the far side of the sea even there your hand will guide me your right hand will hold me fast if i say surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me oh lord even the darkness will not be dark to you the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light for you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother s womb oh and i praise you because i am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful i know that full well if i go up to the heavens you are there if i make my bed in the depths you are there if i rise on the wings of the dawn if i settle on the far side of the sea even there your hand will guide me  my frame was not hidden from you lord when i was made in that secret place when i was woven together when i was woven together in the depths of the earth in the depths of the earth your eyes they saw my unformed body all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be they were ordained for me they were ordained for me yeah how precious to me are all of your thoughts lord how vast is the sum of them were i to count them they would outnumber the grains of sand the grains of the sand when i awake lord when i awake lord i am still with you i am still with you i am still with you i am still with you