Lord, Thou Hast Searched and Seen Me Through (EN 1860)

EN 1860 Lord, Thou Hast Searched and Seen Me Through

Ps.139.1

Versi Version 1

1

Lord, Thou hast searched and seen me through,

Thine eye commands with piercing view

My rising and my resting hours,

My heart and flesh with all their powers.

2

My thoughts, before they are my own,

Are to my God distinctly known;

He knows the words I mean to speak

Ere from my opening lips they break.

3

Within Thy circling power I stand;

On every side I find Thy hand;

Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,

I am surrounded still with God.

4

Amazing knowledge, vast and great!

What large extent! what lofty height!

My soul, with all the powers I boast,

Is in the boundless prospect lost.

5

Could I so false, so faithless prove,

To quit Thy service and Thy love,

Where, Lord, could I Thy presence shun,

Or from Thy dreadful glory run?

6

If up to Heav’n I take my flight,

’Tis there Thou dwell’st enthroned in light

Or dive to hell, there vengeance reigns,

And Satan groans beneath Thy chains.

7

If, mounted on a morning ray,

I fly beyond the western sea,

Thy swifter hand would first arrive,

And there arrest Thy fugitive.

8

Or should I try to shun Thy sight

Beneath the spreading veil of night,

One glance of Thine, one piercing ray,

Would kindle darkness into day.

9

The veil of night is no disguise,

No screen from Thy all-searching eyes;

Thy hand can seize Thy foes as soon

Through midnight shades as blazing noon.

10

Midnight and noon in this agree,

Great God, they’re both alike to Thee;

Not death can hide what God will spy,

And hell lies naked to His eye.

11

O may these thoughts possess my breast,

Where’er I rove, where’er I rest!

Nor let my weaker passions dare

Consent to sin, for God is there.

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