1Dem Chorleiter. Ein Psalmlied von David.
Jahwe, du hast mich erforscht und erkannt.2Ob ich sitze oder stehe, du weißt es, / du kennst meine Gedanken von fern.3Ob ich ruhe oder gehe, du prüfst es, / mit all meinen Wegen bist du vertraut.4Noch eh das Wort auf meine Zunge kommt, / hast du es schon gehört, Jahwe.5Von allen Seiten umschließt du mich, / ich bin ganz in deiner Hand.6Das ist zu wunderbar für mich, es zu begreifen, / zu hoch, dass ich es verstehe!7Wohin sollte ich gehen, um dir zu entkommen, / wohin fliehen, dass du mich nicht siehst?8Stiege ich zum Himmel hinauf, so bist du da, / legte ich mich zu den Toten, da wärst du auch.9Nähme ich die Flügel des Morgenrots / und ließe mich nieder am Ende des Meeres,10auch dort würdest du mich führen, / deine Hand hielte mich fest.11Sagte ich: „Die Finsternis umschließe mich, / das Licht um mich werde Nacht!“12Auch die Finsternis ist nicht finster vor dir, / die Nacht leuchtet vor dir wie der Tag, / die Finsternis wäre wie das Licht.13Denn du selbst hast mein Inneres gebildet, / mich zusammengefügt im Leib meiner Mutter.14Ich preise dich, dass ich so wunderbar und staunenswert erschaffen bin. / Ja, das habe ich erkannt: Deine Werke sind wunderbar!15Nie war ich unsichtbar für dich, als ich unbemerkt Gestalt annahm, / in irdischer Tiefe kunstvoll zusammengefügt.16Du sahst mich schon, als ich ein einziger Knäuel[1] ‹in meiner winzig kleinen Zelle› war. / Und bevor mein erster Tag begann, / stand mein Leben längst in deinem Buch.17Wie kostbar, Gott, sind mir deine Gedanken! / Es sind so unfassbar viele!18Wollte ich sie zählen, so wären sie mehr als der Sand. / Und wenn ich erwache, bin ich noch immer bei dir.19Würdest du, Gott, doch den Gottlosen töten! / Ihr blutgierigen Menschen, macht euch fort!20Sie reden nur mit Hinterlist von dir, / lehnen sich vergeblich gegen dich auf.21Sollte ich nicht hassen, die dich hassen, Jahwe, / und verachten, die aufstehen gegen dich?22Ich hasse sie mit äußerstem Hass / und betrachte sie auch als Feinde für mich.23Erforsche mich, Gott, und erkenne mein Herz! / Prüfe mich und erkenne meine Gedanken!24Sieh, ob ein gottloser Weg mich verführt, / und leite mich auf dem ewigen Weg!
1LORD, you have seen what is in my heart. You know all about me.2You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know what I’m thinking even though you are far away.3You know when I go out to work and when I come back home. You know exactly how I live.4LORD, even before I speak a word, you know all about it.5You are all around me, behind me and in front of me. You hold me safe in your hand.6I’m amazed at how well you know me. It’s more than I can understand.7How can I get away from your Spirit? Where can I go to escape from you?8If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the deepest parts of the earth, you are also there.9Suppose I were to rise with the sun in the east. Suppose I travel to the west where it sinks into the ocean.10Your hand would always be there to guide me. Your right hand would still be holding me close.11Suppose I were to say, ‘I’m sure the darkness will hide me. The light around me will become as dark as night.’12Even that darkness would not be dark to you. The night would shine like the day, because darkness is like light to you.13You created the deepest parts of my being. You put me together inside my mother’s body.14How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well.15None of my bones was hidden from you when you made me inside my mother’s body. That place was as dark as the deepest parts of the earth. When you were putting me together there,16your eyes saw my body even before it was formed. You planned how many days I would live. You wrote down the number of them in your book before I had lived through even one of them.17God, your thoughts about me are priceless. No one can possibly add them all up.18If I could count them, they would be more than the grains of sand. If I were to fall asleep counting and then wake up, you would still be there with me.19God, I wish you would kill the people who are evil! I wish those murderers would get away from me!20They are your enemies. They misuse your name. They misuse it for their own evil purposes.21LORD, I really hate those who hate you! I really hate those who rise up against you!22I have nothing but hatred for them. I consider them to be my enemies.23God, see what is in my heart. Know what is there. Test me. Know what I’m thinking.24See if there’s anything in my life you don’t like. Help me live in the way that is always right.
1To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! (Ps 7,9; Ps 17,3; Ps 44,21; Jer 12,3)2You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. (2Kön 19,27; Hi 14,16; Hi 31,4; Kla 3,63; Mt 9,4; Joh 2,24)3You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.4Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. (Hebr 4,13)5You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. (Hi 9,33; Hi 19,8)6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. (Hi 42,3; Röm 11,33)7Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? (Jer 23,24; Jon 1,3)8If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! (Hi 26,6; Am 9,2)9If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,10even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. (Ps 23,3; Ps 139,24)11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” (Hi 22,14)12even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. (Hi 34,22; Dan 2,22)13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. (5Mo 32,6; Hi 10,11)14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[1] Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. (Ps 72,18)15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. (Hi 10,8; Ps 63,9; Pred 11,5)16Your 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. (Ps 56,8)17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! (Ps 92,5)18If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. (1Mo 22,17; Ps 40,5)19Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! (Ps 5,6; Ps 6,8; Ps 9,17; Jes 11,4)20They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.[2] (2Mo 20,7; Jud 1,15)21Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? (Ps 26,5; Ps 59,1; Ps 119,158)22I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.23Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts![3] (Ps 26,2)24And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting![4] (Ps 139,10; Jer 6,16; Jer 18,15)