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O LORD, You See and Search My Life
- O LORD, you see and search my life;
you know me through and through.
Before a word is on my tongue,
behold, it’s known to you.
My going out and lying down
are plain before your view.
Before I speak a word, O LORD,
it is well known to you. - You hem me in behind, before;
on me you lay your hand.
Such knowledge is too wonderful,
too high to understand.
Where can I from your Spirit flee
or from your presence go?
In heav’n above, LORD, you are there,
or deep in death below. - If I should take the wings of dawn
and dwell beyond the sea,
e’en there your hand my guide would be,
your right hand holding me.
If I should say, “The dark will surely
hide me from your sight,
and all the light surrounding me
become as dark as night.” - Yet even darkness is not dark
to you in any way;
for darkness is as light to you,
the night as bright as day.
For you, O LORD, created me;
you wove me on your loom.
My inmost being you have formed
within my mother’s womb. - You made me, LORD, in awesome ways;
your wondrous praise I tell;
how great and wondrous are your works,
my soul knows this full well.
When I was made in secret, LORD,
and woven with great skill,
you saw my substance, yet unformed,
in depths of earth concealed. - And all the days that I should live,
which you ordained for me,
were written in your book, O LORD,
before they came to be.
Your perfect thoughts, O God, are very
precious unto me—
so wide and vast the sum of them
in their infinity. - Were I to count them, they would number
more than grains of sand.
I’m still with you when I awake,
I’m safe within your hand.
May God destroy all wicked men!
You men of blood, away!
They speak of you with hateful hearts,
your foes abuse your name. - Do I not hate all those, O LORD,
who hate you and oppose?
With perfect hatred I abhor
and count them as my foes.
O search me, God, and know my heart;
my anxious thoughts survey,
and lead me, if in sin I stray,
in your eternal way.
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© 2018 Trinity Psalter Hymnal Joint Venture
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Psalm
139A
Scripture Reference
Psalm 139
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Meter
C.M.D.
Composer Information
Croft, William (1708)
- Author: OPC/URCNA (2016) (230)