Tune: Dambusters March [Series: Hymn Tunes A-Z: D]
(\'God is our strength and refuge\')
Psalm 139 v.1-10
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O Lord God, you have searched me
And, O Lord, you have known me
You know all my down-sitting
And all my uprising
You understand my thoughts, see
From afar off, and fully
My path you know true
And my laying down too
You are acquainted with all
My ways, I unto you call
In my tongue there not a word
But you know it all, Lord
You have beset, enclosed me
Behind and before, so be
Laid on me your hand
All me you understand
Such knowledge too wonderful
I cannot attain it all
Where shall I go from your
Spirit? It be sure
There no place I can escape
Your eyes scan each landscape
From your presence flee?
Omnipresent you be
If I ascend to heaven
Then I shall find you there then
Or if I go down to hell
You there too in Sheol*
If I take wings of morning
To farthest sea, furthest thing
E\'en there your hand shall
Lead me, and hold me well
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* Sheol - the shadowy world of the dead
in Old Testament times.