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Thank you so much for these lyrics. I sang this song as a high school student. I went to a Catholic school. It always brought me such comfort.

Thank you so much!!!! This is a great help for me in striving to come closer to God.

Thank you so much for helping me to find this lyrics I really appreciate you, your website.

God Bless you,
Rojohn

May God graciously bless you, Steve, and may your website be blessed. At least now I can sing along to it at Holy Mass - they don't hand out lyrics for these lovely tunes. Anyway, "sing praises to the living God" for this site. To all who read, visit this site once you are in need of a hymn.

In the service of Christ,
I remain: J.O.

Thank you for having sites like this it made my search fast, really appreciated it,
this song is often sung in masses and with that huge over head projector or with that giant light emitting diode boards it is easy to sing along, then i heard it playing in a pc and its in piano, so i decided to look it on the internet, and the problem is i also do not know what the title is, so i just typed the first line and viola! here it is...

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Is this song related to one of the Psalms?

Hi Guest,

The phrase "I know you are near, O Lord" appears to be from Psalm 119:151, but the main inspiration fo the hymn is Psalm 139, which is a beautiful Psalm in itself.

1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in-behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

God bless,
Steve

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the lyrics... i used to sang this song every night. and every night... i really love this song, i was a member of a church choir when i was in high school and i learned this song... really touched my heart, i couldnt help my self to cry every time i sang this song... tears of joy, because i know God always standing at my side...

Thanks for sharing this lyrics to the people..

May God bless you always

Nyle

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the lyrics... i used to sang this song every nightt... i really love this song, i was a member of a church choir when i was in high school and i learned this song... really touched my heart, i couldnt help my self to cry every time i sang this song... tears of joy, because i know God always standing at my side...

Thanks for sharing this lyrics to the people..

May God bless you always

Nyle [PHIL]

Thanks for finding the song for me. This is my favourite song when I was growing up and now I would like to teach it to my two young daughters. This song reminds me of who God is to us that no matter what He is always there for us. Thank for maintaining this site.. Flora