Hold Me Fast (NIV Psalm 139)
Words and Music by Pete Lind
Oh Lord, you’ve searched me, and you know me
For you know when I sit and when I rise
Before a word is on my tongue, you know what I will say
For you my Lord are familiar with all my ways
You’ve hemmed me in behind, and before me
For you have laid you hand upon me
For you created my inmost being, my frame it was not hidden from you
I praise you be cause I am fearfully and wonderfully made
Chorus
If I rise on the wings of the dawn
If I settle on the far side of the sea
Even there your hand my Lord will guide me
Search me oh God and know my heart
Test me and know my anxious thoughts
See if there is any offensive way in me
And lead me in the way everlasting
Your right hand, my Lord will hold me fast
All the days ordained for me, were written in you book
Before one of them – ever came to be
Where can I go from your spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence Lord, If I go
Up to the heavens or down to the depths you are there
If I say surely the darkness will hide me, and the light becomes the
Night all around me – Even the darkness will not be dark, the
Night will shine like the day – For the darkness is just as the
Light to you my Lord
Chorus
If I rise on the wings of the dawn
If I settle on the far side of the sea
Even there your hand my Lord will guide me
Search me oh God and know my heart
Test me and know my anxious thoughts
See if there is any offensive way in me
And lead me in the way everlasting
Your right hand, my Lord will hold me fast
And lead me in the way everlasting
Your right hand, my Lord will hold me fast
