ECB(i)
1 To His Eminence: A Psalm by David. O Yah Veh, you probed me and know;
2 you know my settling and my uprising; you discern my intention afar off;
3 you winnow my path and my reposing and are accustomed to all my ways;
4 for there is not an utterance in my tongue. Behold, O Yah Veh, you know altogether;
5 you besiege me behind and in front and placed your palm on me.
6 Such knowledge is too marvellous for me; too lofty; I am not able for it.
7 Where go I from your spirit? Where flee I from your face?
8 If I ascend into the heavens, you are there; if I bed down in sheol, behold - you;
9 if I lift the wings of the dawn and tabernacle in the finality of the sea;
10 even there your hand leads me and your right holds me:
11 if I say, Surely the darkness crushes me; even the night is light to me.
12 Yes, the darkness darkens not from you; and night lights as the day; as the darkness, thus the light.
13 For you - you chattelized my reins; you covered me in the belly of my mother:
14 I spread hands to you; for I am awesomely distinguished; marvellous are your works - and my soul knows that right well.
15 My might was not concealed from you, when I was covertly worked and embroidered in the nethermost of the earth:
16 your eyes saw my embryo; and in your scroll they were inscribed in the days they were formed - and no one among them.
17 How esteemed - your intentions to me, O El! How mighty their head!
18 If I scribe them, they abound more than the sand; when I waken, I am still with you.
19 Surely you sever the wicked, O Elohah; so turn aside from me, you men of blood:
20 for they say intrigue against you; lift your enemies in vanity.
21 Hate I not them, O Yah Veh, who hate you? and loathe I not them who resist you?
22 I hate them with conclusive hatred; I count them my enemies.
23 Probe me, O El, and know my heart; proof me and know my thoughts:
24 and see if there be a contorting way in me and lead me in the way eternal.