Omnipresent Omniscience

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 my down-sitting

And my uprising

You understand my thoughts, see

From afar off, and fully

You surround my path

My lying down too

You are acquainted with all

My ways, I unto you call

In my tongue not a word

But you know all, Lord

You have beset, enclosed me

Behind and before, so be

And laid on me your hand

All 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 every landscape

Where flee from your presence?

Everywhere it sensed

If I ascend to heaven

Then I shall find you there then

Or e'en go down to hell

You there in Sheol*

If I take wings of morning

To farthest sea, furthest thing

Even there your hand shall

Lead, and hold me well

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* Sheol - the shadowy world of the dead

in Old Testament times.