(thing) by Deborah909 Sat Apr 08 2000 at 0:34:41
This is a very traditional Jewish translation. You should definitely buy the edition published by the folks at Artscroll, or at least send them a bunch of money.

  1. For the Conductor, by David, a psalm. O Hashem, You have scrutinized me and you know.

  2. You know my sitting down and my rising up, You understand my thought from afar.

  3. You encompass my path and my repose, You are familiar with all my ways.

  4. For the word is not yet on my tongue - behold, Hashem, You knew it all.

  5. Back and front You have restricted me, and You have laid Your hand upon me.

  6. Knowledge is beyond me; exalted, I am incapable of it.

  7. Where can I go from Your spirit? And where can I flee from Your Presence?

  8. If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in the lowest depths, behold, You are there.

  9. Were I to take up wings of dawn, were I to dwell in the distant west -

  10. there, too, Your hand would guide me, and Your right hand would grasp me.

  11. Would I say: 'Surely darkness will shadow me,' then the night would become as light around me.

  12. Even darkness obscures not from You; and night is as luminous as the day - darkness and light are the same.

  13. For You have created my mind; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

  14. I acknowledge You, for I am awesomely, wondrously fashioned, wondrous are Your works, and my soul knows it well.

  15. My physical structure was not hidden from You; that which I was made in concealment, which I was knit together in the lowest parts of the earth.

  16. Your eyes saw my unshaped form, and in Your book all were recorded; though they will be fashioned through many days, to Him they are one.

  17. To me - how glorious are Your thoughts, O God! How very great are their general headings!

  18. Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand, even if I were to be constantly awake and always with You.

  19. O that You would slay the wicked, O God, and men of blood (to whom I say) 'Depart from me!'

  20. Those who pronounce Your name for wicked schemes, it is taken in vain by Your enemies.

  21. For indeed those who hate You, Hashem, I hate them, and I quarrel with those who rise up against You!

  22. With the utmost hatred, I hate them, I regard them as my own enemies.

  23. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

  24. And see if I have vexing ways; and lead me in the way of eternity.

I like it! 3 C!s