"Ob ich sitze oder stehe" (Whether I sit or walk) is a Christian poem by Eugen Eckert, written in 1988, and made a hymn of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied with a melody and setting by Torsten Hampel the same year.
The song is also known by its refrain "Von allen Seiten umgibst du mich".
The poem was written by theologian and Protestant minister Eugen Eckert.
It is in three stanzas with the refrain "Von allen Seiten umgibst du mich" (literally: You surround me on all sides).
The hymn appears in the regional part of the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of the Diocese of Limburg as GL 825.