O God You Search Me

O God, you search me and you know me.
All my thoughts lie open to your gaze.
When I walk or lie down, you are before me,

Ever the maker and keeper of my days.

You know my resting and my rising.
You discern my purpose from afar,
and with love everlasting you besiege me:
In ev’ry moment of life or death, you are.

Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,
you have known its meaning through and through.
You are with me beyond my understanding:
God of my present, my past and future too.