1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I
rise;
you perceive my thoughts from
afar.
3 You discern my going out and my
lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 But I think that what you’re doing
is illegal, O LORD.
6 I’m pretty sure you need my permission
to hold my personal information.
7 It’s a violation of my human rights
or something.
8 At the very least it’s a violation of my
personal space.
9 It’s called stalking, and it’s actually against
the law, you know;
10 I don’t want you following my every
move, O LORD.
11 I would take out a restraining order if I
could.
12 But I don’t know how that works on someone
who’s omnipresent.
13 There was that guy who sued Google
for his right to be forgotten;
so that people couldn’t know his past.
14 And there’s been all the stuff on the news
about Facebook recently.
15 Even Mark Zuckerberg is being held
accountable now.
16 Who said that you were allowed to remember
everything about me, O LORD?
Who holds you accountable?
17 I don’t care if you created my inmost being;
or knit me together in my mother’s womb.
18 That doesn’t give you the right to invade
my privacy.
19 And you say that all the days ordained
for me were written in Your book…
20 Actually, that sounds like a threat;
Are you threatening me, O LORD?
21 My business is my business;
My life is mine and mine alone.
22 And it’s none of your business what I do
with it.
23 Or what I do in the privacy of my
own home.
I don’t want you knowing everything I do.
24 I’d rather be anonymous than have
you close, O LORD.
