All That I Am I Owe to Thee

All that I am I owe to Thee,
Thy wisdom, Lord, has fashioned me;
I give my Maker thankful praise,
Whose wondrous works my soul amaze.

Ere into being I was brought,
Thine eye did see, and in Thy thought
My life in all its perfect plan
Was ordered ere my days began.

Thy thoughts, O God, how manifold,
More precious unto me than gold!
I muse on their infinity,
Awaking I am still with Thee.

The wicked Thou shalt surely slay,
From me let sinners turn away;
They speak against the Name divine,
I count God’s enemies as mine.

Search me, O God, my heart discern,
Try me, my inmost thought to learn;
And lead me, if in sin I stray,
To choose the everlasting way.

Author: The Psalter, 1912

Year: 1912

This is a metrical version of Psalm 139:14-24 (with some influence from earlier verses). The Psalter (1912), produced by the United Presbyterian Church, is the most common source for this exact wording and stanza structure in hymnals. No single individual author is credited; it is a committee-produced psalter text. Some later hymnals attribute similar Psalm 139 versions to other writers (e.g., Isaac Watts or Henry Francis Lyte), but those have distinctly different wording.