LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1719
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 139; Ps 139:7
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 632
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 72
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 57
| Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts - Psalms
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| 139
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MUSIC
 Songs of Fellowship 3
| 1469
| Ab
| Living Praise
| 246
| Bb
| Hymns of Faith
| 406
| Bb
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 589
| Bb
| Songs of Fellowship 3
| 1566
| Bb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 72
| Bb
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 73
| Bb
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 562
| Bb
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 57
| Bb
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 427
| Bb
| Believers Hymn Book
| 454
| Bb
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 290
| Bb
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. In all my vast concerns with Thee,
In vain my soul would try
To shun Thy presence, Lord, or flee
The notice of Thine eye.
2. Thy all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,
My public walks, my private ways,
The secrets of my breast.
3. My thoughts lie open to Thee, Lord,
Before they’re formed within;
And, ere my lips pronounce the word,
Thou know’st the sense I mean.
4. O wondrous knowledge, deep and high;
Where can a creature hide?
Within Thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on every side.
5. So let Thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love.
6. Lord, where shall guilty souls retire,
Forgotten and unknown?
In hell they meet thy dreadful fire,
In heav'n thy glorious throne.
7. Should I suppress my vital breath
To 'scape the wrath divine,
Thy voice would break the bars of death,
And make the grave resign.
8. If winged with beams of morning light
I fly beyond the west,
Thy hand, which must support my flight,
Would soon betray my rest.
9. If o'er my sins I think to draw
The curtains of the night,
Those flaming eyes that guard thy law
Would turn the shades to light.
10. The beams of noon, the midnight hour,
Are both alike to thee
O may I ne'er provoke that power
From which I cannot flee.
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