


Words and Music:

Note: To aid in singing without musical accompaniment, sentences below have been broken at points matching those points at which singing pauses briefly.
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
You know
when I sit down and … rise up;
You understand
my thought from afar.
You scrutinize my path and
my lying down, And
are intimately acquainted
with all my ways.
Even before there is
a word on my tongue, Behold,
O LORD, You know it all.
You’ve enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Thy hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I can’t get to it.
Where can I go
from Your Spirit?…
where can I flee
from Your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol,
behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
or dwell in the remotest
part of the sea,
Even there Your
hand will lead me,
Your right hand will lay hold of me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
[If I say,] the light around me
will be night,"
Even the darkness is not
dark to You,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to You.
For Thou didst form
my inward parts;
You wove me in
my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
Your eyes have seen my
unformed substance;
And in Your book
[they] were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
How precious also
are Your thoughts to me,
O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them,
they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
O that You would
slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
For they speak against You wickedly,
And Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD?
…Do I not loathe those who
rise up against You?
I hate them with
the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts.
And see if there be any
hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.”

Psalm 139
New American Standard Bible
The Lockman Foundation
music: The Bee Gees “Emotion”
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