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Wells of Living Water Commentary - Psalms 139:1-24

Thou God Seest Me Selections from Psalms 139:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The world today needs a new vision of the Deity of Christ. Our Lord Jesus has been dragged down from His place of authority and power, until the men of the world would leave us nothing but a great man as our Lord and Saviour. The Christ of the Bible was God manifest in the flesh. He was the One who was on earth, and came down from Heaven, even the One who was in Heaven. He was the One who knew all things, who looked into... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 139:1-24

CXXXIX. God is Everywhere: He Knows Everything— Oh that He would Destroy the Wicked.— This Ps. is among the most spiritual productions of the OT. It deals with the mystery of Divine providence, a theme frequently discussed after the Exile, when the national life had died out and each individual was brought face to face with the difficulties which surrounded him and with the thought of his ultimate fate. Other nations, of course, have engaged in similar speculation, but in very different tone... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 139:7

From thy spirit; either, 1. From the Holy Ghost, the third person in the Trinity: or, 2. From thee, who art a Spirit, and therefore canst penetrate into the most secret parts: or, 3. From thy mind or understanding, of which he is here speaking, as this word seems to be taken, Isaiah 40:13, compared with Romans 11:34; for what there is called the spirit of the Lord, is here called the mind of the Lord. And as the Spirit of God is oft used in Scripture for its gifts and graces, so the spirit of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 139:8

If I make my bed in hell; if I should or could repose and hide myself in the grave, or in the lowest parts of the earth, which are at the farthest distance from heaven. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 139:1-24

INTRODUCTION“Nowhere,” says Perowne, “are the great attributes of God—His omniscience, His omnipresence, His omnipotence, set forth so strikingly as they are in this magnificent Psalm. Nowhere is there a more overwhelming sense of the fact that man is beset and compassed about by God, pervaded by His Spirit, unable to take a step without His control; and yet nowhere is there a more emphatic assertion of the personality of man as distinct from, not absorbed in the Deity. This is no pantheistie... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 139:7

Psalms 139:7 I. God is in all modes of personal existence. These are all covered by the contrast between heaven and hell, than which no words would suggest a completer contrast to every thoughtful Hebrew. II. God's presence is in the yet untrodden ways of human history. There came sometimes to the untravelled Israelites a perception that the world was very large. The ninth verse of this Psalm gives us an image of the Psalmist, standing by the sea-shore, watching as the rising sun broadens the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 139:1-12

DISCOURSE: 734THE OMNIPRESENCE AND OMNISCIENCE OF GODPsalms 139:1-12. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways: for there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 139:8

hell Heb. "Sheol," (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 139:1-24

Psalms 139:1-24 , another psalm of David to the chief musician. As David offers this prayer really unto God, declaring, first of all,O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me ( Psalms 139:1 ).Recognizing that God knows me completely and fully.You know my downsittings and my uprisings ( Psalms 139:2 ),Or you know my ups and my downs.you understand my thoughts afar off ( Psalms 139:2 ).The Hebrew is, "You understand my thoughts in their origins." Before I even think them, You know them. You... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 139:1-24

This psalm is entitled, a psalm of David. All the Versions agree with the Hebrew in this. It must be regarded as one of the sublimest representations of the Divinity, and particularly with regard to omniscience, ever composed. It also represents the moral perfections of God as the searcher of hearts, and the avenger of crime. It represents the divinity under all the grandeur of the Godhead, by the name Jehovah, associated with the enquiry, Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, or flee from thy... read more