Psalm 139 Part 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEF GGHA IJKL MMNN O PQRR JJSS TUVW JJTT MMNN O XXYY UUOO MMNN| The all seeing God | A |
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| Lord thou hast searched and seen me through | B |
| Thine eye commands with piercing view | B |
| My rising and my resting hours | C |
| My heart and flesh with all their powers | C |
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| My thoughts before they are my own | D |
| Are to my God distinctly known | D |
| He knows the words I mean to speak | E |
| Ere from my op'ning lips they break | F |
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| Within thy circling power I stand | G |
| On every side I find thy hand | G |
| Awake asleep at home abroad | H |
| I am surrounded still with God | A |
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| Amazing knowledge vast and great | I |
| What large extent what lofty height | J |
| My soul with all the powers I boast | K |
| Is in the boundless prospect lost | L |
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| O may these thoughts possess my breast | M |
| Where'er I rove where'er I rest | M |
| Nor let my weaker passions dare | N |
| Consent to sin for God is there | N |
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| PAUSE I | O |
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| Could I so false so faithless prove | P |
| To quit thy service and thy love | Q |
| Where Lord could I thy presence shun | R |
| Or from thy dreadful glory run | R |
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| If up to heav'n I take my flight | J |
| 'Tis there thou dwell'st enthroned in light | J |
| Or dive to hell there vengeance reigns | S |
| And Satan groans beneath thy chains | S |
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| If mounted on a morning ray | T |
| I fly beyond the western sea | U |
| Thy swifter hand would first arrive | V |
| And there arrest thy fugitive | W |
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| Or should I try to shun thy sight | J |
| Beneath the spreading veil of night | J |
| One glance of thine one piercing ray | T |
| Would kindle darkness into day | T |
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| O may these thoughts possess my breast | M |
| Where'er I rove where'er I rest | M |
| Nor let my weaker passions dare | N |
| Consent to sin for God is there | N |
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| PAUSE II | O |
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| The veil of night is no disguise | X |
| No screen from thy all searching eyes | X |
| Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon | Y |
| Through midnight shades as blazing noon | Y |
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| Midnight and noon in this agree | U |
| Great God they're both alike to thee | U |
| Not death can hide what God will spy | O |
| And hell lies naked to his eye | O |
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| O may these thoughts possess my breast | M |
| Where'er I rove where'er I rest | M |
| Nor let my weaker passions dare | N |
| Consent to sin for God is there | N |
Isaac Watts
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Psalm 139 Part 1 is a poem by Isaac Watts. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.