Infinitude

“Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens;
Your faithfulness reaches unto the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the great mountains;
Your judgments are a great deep;
O LORD, you preserve man and beast.”
Psalm 36:5-6

1.
If I could pace with measured tread
The trackless course the stars have run,
If I could sail my barque across
The sea of lights beyond the sun,
And if at voyage end I came
Unto the misty edge of things
And mid the thund’rous overflow
Plunged o’er, whence the eternal springs,
Then greater still, O LORD, would be
The vast infinitude of Thee.

2.
Your steadfast love and loyal care
Like starry skies are o’er me spread,
Whose spangled glories calm my fears
When darkness makes for me a bed.
Bright constellations shape the script
By which in trial I construe
Your covenant of ceaseless grace
And mercies for me ever new.

3.
Your faithfulness arrayed on high
A bow of promise is to me,
An arch of varicolored truth,
Your Word, my perfect panoply.
Above me tow’rs Your awesome Name;
Majestic is the glory cloud
That leads me on my weary way
Unto the place Your oath avowed.

4.
Your righteousness, like Ararat,
In grandeur mounts above the plain,
With snow-clad peaks of purity
Unsullied by the creature’s stain.
Since all Your ways and all Your acts
Are ever just and clean and right,
On Thee I stand, O Mighty Rock,
And doubt and gloom are put to flight.

5.
Your judgments, like the sea’s expanse,
To sense and sight are all laid bare;
Your justice is the deep below
In which Your suit you do prepare,
Where cryptic tides of rectitude
Impartial and discerning flow;
Unfathomed yawns the dread abyss
Wherein my secret thoughts You know.

6.
Nor height, nor depth, nor length, nor breadth
Can e’er avail to compass Thee,
Nor can created thing compare
With Your divine sublimity.
Could I an epic fortress build
Of steel and stone for my repose,
Could angel warriors stand without
With flaming swords against my foes,
Then swifter still, LORD, shall I flee
To the infinitude of Thee.

by Matthew Hanna

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Infinitude

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