Tune: Serenity
(\'Immortal love, for ever full\')
Psalm 139 parts
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Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Each corner, it be lit
By your light revealing, and where
Is your presence not there?
For you be everywhere, no place
Where I cannot you trace
From highest heaven to deepest
Hell*, from greatest to least
Darkness shall no hide me from you
For dark and light, \'tis true
Are both alike to you, you see
All omnisciently**
You did make me when I was not
Yet born, favoured my lot
And more than grains of sand there be
Your precious thoughts to me
Search me, O God, and know my heart
Illumine every part
Try me and know my thoughts, and see
If any sins in me
And if there be so, me forgive
So through your grace I live
And lead me in way e\'erlasting
Fulfilment this shall bring
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* \'Hell\' here is \'Sheol\', the Old Testament shadowy land of the dead.
** \'Omnisciently\' -\'all-knowingly\'