YOU ARE NEAR

DAN SCHUTTE

[Antiphon]
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Oh Lord, I know you are near
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Standing always at my side.
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You guard me from the foe,
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And you lead me in ways everlasting.

Verse 1
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Lord, you have searched my heart, and you know when I sit and when I stand.
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Your hand is upon me protecting me from death, keeping me from harm.

Verse 2
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Where can I run from your love? If I climb to the heavens you are there;
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If I fly to the sunrise or sail beyond the sea, still I'd find you there.
Verse 3
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You know my heart and its ways, you who formed me before I was born
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In secret of darkness before I saw the sun in my mother's womb.

Verse 4
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Marvelous to me are your works; how profound are your thoughts, my Lord.
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Even if I could count them, they number as the stars, you would still be there.