You Are Near
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O Lord, I know you are near, stand-ing al - ways
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at my side. You guard me from the foe, and you
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lead me in ways ev - er - last - ing.
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1. Lord, you have searched my heart, and you
2. Where can I run from your love? If I
3. You know my heart and its ways, you who
4. Mar - vel - ous to me are your works; how pro -
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know when I sit and when I stand. Your
climb to the heav - ens you are there; if I
formed me be - fore I was born, in the
found are your thoughts, my Lord. E - ven
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hand is up - on me, pro - tect - ing me from death,
fly to the sun - rise or sail be - yond the sea,
se - cret of dark - ness be - fore I saw the sun,
if I could count them, they num - ber as the stars,
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keep - ing me from harm.
still I’d find you there.
in my moth - er’s womb.
you would still be there.
Text: Psalm 139; Dan Schutte, b.1947
Tune: Dan Schutte, b.1947; acc. by Sr. Theophane Hytrek, OSF, 1915-1992
© 1971, Daniel L. Schutte. Administered by OCP.