Choral Akari Archive

Lord, You Have Searched Me, and You Know

Hymn Information

Folder: Main I, no. 52
Tune used, name: 'Tender Thought'
Composer: anonymous; from Ananias Davisson’s 'Kentucky Harmony', published in 1816
Lyricist: anonymous; from The Psalter, published in 1912, altered, based on Psalm 139
Source used for representative text: from hymnary.org, Trinity Psalter Hymnal #139B

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
Lord, you have searched me and you know
where'er I rest, where'er I go;
you search my thoughts and know my plans,
and all my ways are in your hands.

2
My words from you I cannot hide,
you hem me in on ev'ry side;
O wond'rous knowledge, awesome might,
unfathomed depth, unmeasured height!

3
Where can I from your Spirit be?
Where can I from your presence flee?
In heav'n? it is your dwelling fair;
in death's abode? lo, you are there.

4
If I the wings of morning take,
and in the seas my dwelling make,
e'en there your faithful hand shall lead,
your right hand, Lord, is holding me.

5
If deepest darkness cover me,
to you the darkness light shall be;
if light about me be as night
to you both night and day are bright.