Psalms of Grace ‎#139b

139b. LORD, You Have Searched

1 LORD, You hast search'd 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 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.

Text Information

• First Line: LORD, You have search'd and seen me through
• Title: LORD, You Have Searched
• Author: Isaac Watts
• Meter: 8.8.8.8 LM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2022
• Scripture:
  Psalm 139
• Source: The Psalms of David, 1718

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