Psalm 139

1. O LORD my God, Thou searchest me;  / My heart and mind are known to Thee!  / No things are hidden from Thine eyes  / When I sit down and when I rise,  / And from afar Thou art discerning  / My thoughts and hopes, my secret yearning.  /

2. Thou knowest all and Thou dost trace  / My journey and my resting-place.  / The ways I go are clear to Thee,  / And all my doings Thou dost see.  / My tongue, though silent, is revealing  / The inmost thoughts I am concealing.  /

3. Thou art before me and behind  / And Thou hast probed my heart and mind;  / Upon me Thou hast laid Thy hand.  / O LORD, how could I understand  / Thy wondrous knowledge or explain it,  / So high that I cannot attain it! / W. van der Kamp, 1972