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A meditation of the omnipresence of God, and a prayer that we may alwayes walke as in his sight.
O Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me: thou knowest my down∣sitting, and mine up-rising, thou un∣derstandest my thoughts long before.
2 Thou art about my path, and about my bed: and spiest out all my wayes.
3 For lo, there is not a word in my tongue: but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether.
4 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before: and laid thine hand upon me.
5 Such knowledge is too wonderfull and ex∣cellent for me: I cannot attain unto it.
6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit: or whither shall I go then from thy presence?
7 If I climbe up into heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
8 If I take the wings of the morning: and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea.
9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
10 If I say, Peradventure the darknesse shall cover me: then shall my night be turned to day.
11 Yea, the darknesse is no darknesse with thee, but the night is as cleare as the day: the darknesse and light (to thee) are both alike.
12 For my reins are thine: thou hast covered me in my mothers wombe.
13 I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy workes, and that my soul knoweth right well.
14 My bones are not hid from thee: though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.
15 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect: and in thy book were all my members written.
16 Which day by day were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them.
17 How deare are thy counsels unto me, O God: O how great is the summe of them!
18 If I tell them, they are moe in number then the sand: when I wake up, I am present with thee.
19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O God: de∣part from me ye bloud-thirsty men.
20 For they speak unrighteously against thee: and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them O Lord, that hate thee: and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 Yea, I hate them right sore: even as though they were mine enemies.
23 Trie me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart: prove me and examine my thoughts.
24 Look well if there be any way of wicked∣nesse in me: and lead me in the way everlasting.
O Lord God, who art infinite in wisedom, and present in all place, filling heaven and earth and hell with the effects of thy mighty po∣wer,
and communications of thy glorious essence: let thy hand lead us, and thy right hand hold us in all our waies, alwaies considering that thou art present, understanding our thoughts and words, even long before they are, & seeing our most se∣cret waies as clearely as in the sight of the sunne: print thy feare mightily upon our soules, that we may be as fearfull of committing sinnes in secret, as in the eyes of all the world, that we hating all iniquity, and loving thy counsels as our dearest treasures and guide, may, by the paths of a holy life, be conducted into the way everlasting, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.