About the Hymn
This particular paraphrase of Psalm 139 is first found in The New Metrical Version of the Psalms, 1909 (p. 204), with many psalters thereafter including it and rightly so! It is one of my favorite Psalms in meter, so I wanted to give it a memorable, driving tune with a melodic style lacking in much of English hymnody: the sea shanty. I wanted the tune to be fun but reverent, intended to serve well the incredible biblical truths brought forth from the text.
I made very slight changes to the language and to fit the meter of the tune as it materialized.