The All-Seeing God

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 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.