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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 139 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This psalm was written by David, when he lay under the reproach and calumnies of men, who laid false things to his charge; things he was not conscious of either in the time of Saul's persecution of him, or when his son Absalom rebelled against him: and herein he appeals to the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. The omniscience of God reaches to all persons and things; but the psalmist only takes notice of it as respecting himself. God knows all men in general, and whatever belongs to them; he knows his own people in a special manner; and he knows their particular persons, as David and others: and this...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Some of the Jewish doctors are of opinion that this is the most excellent of all the psalms of David; and a very pious devout meditation it is upon the doctrine of God's omniscience, which we should therefore have our hearts fixed upon and filled with in singing this psalm. I. This doctrine is here asserted, and fully laid down, ver. 1-6. II. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. “Thou hast explored me, as men dig in mines, and make subterranean excavations. Thou hast searched into my secret parts, and known me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. God does not need to “search” us, for that implies a want of knowledge, a knowledge obtained by search. But the meaning of the text is, that God knows us as well as if he had examined us through and through, just as an excise officer searches a house to find contraband goods. “O Lord, thou has searched...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD thou hast searched me, and known me. “Known me perfectly, far better than I know myself. Thou hast made an inquisition, and investigated every secret thing concerning me: ‘Thou hast searched me, and known me.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. It is true that God knows everything, but that is not what David says here. He makes a personal application of the universal truth: “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.” He does not talk about God’s knowledge of other men, but he speaks to God concerning himself: “O Lord, thou hast searched me,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou hast looked into my most secret parse. The most intricate labyrinths of my spirit are all observed of thee. Thou hast not searched, and yet been unable to discover the secret of my nature but thou hast searched me and known me. Thy search has been an efficient one, thou hast read the secrets of my...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. He invokes in adoration Jehovah the all knowing God, and he proceeds to adore him by proclaiming one of his peculiar attributes. If we would praise God aright we must draw the matter of our praise from himself—"O Jehovah, thou hast." No pretended god knows aught of us; but the true God, Jehovah,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,.... Here the psalmist proceeds to observe the particular circumstances and actions of his life, which were known to God; as his "downsitting", either to take rest, as weary persons do. Schultens (a) explains it of the quiet rest in sleep; this the Lord knew when he betook himself to it, and to whose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, “My simplest acts, those which I scarcely premeditated.” Psa_139:2. Thou understandest my thought afar off. “Before I think it, when I think it, and when I forget it, thou dost understand my every thought.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting, and mine uprising, “Such common-place things as these, my sitting down at home, my rising up to go to my business, thou, O Lord, dost observe and know even such minor matters as these.” Psa_139:2. Thou understandest my thought afar off. “Before the thought has entered my mind, thou knowest what it will be. When I run...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. “Before I think it, while as yet it is not actually my thought, while it is still unformed, and far away, thou understandest it. Thou not only knowest what it is, but thou understandest it; — the motive from which it springs, the state of mind out of which it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. “What I do, and what I do not do; my downsitting for rest, and my uprising for action ; — thou knowest me altogether, my most trivial deeds, and my most important movements. My thoughts are so well known to thee that, even before I think them, thou knowest what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off. It is a common enough thing to sit down and to rise up and I myself oftentimes scarce know why I do the one or the other, but thou knowest and understandest all. “Thou understandest my thought afar off.” My heart forms a thought that never comes to a word or an...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou compassest my path and my lying down,.... The Targum adds, "to study in the law.'' His walk in the daytime, and every step he took, and his lying down at night. It denotes his perfect knowledge of all his actions, day and night; he surrounds every path of man, that they cannot escape his knowledge. Or, "thou winnowest", as some render the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, Making a ring around me, so that I am entirely under thine observation. My roving and my resting are both known to thee.” Psa_139:3. And art acquainted with all my ways. “My habits, and the exceptions from my habits, are all known to thee.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, “Thou surroundest me when I go out, or when I rest at home; when I labour, or when I sleep. Thou dost set a ring-fence round about my every action and my non-action, too.” Psa_139:3. And art acquainted with all my ways. “Thou knowest all that I do, as one that is most intimate and familiar with me. Thou,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou compassest my path — “Thou art all round me,— behind, before, above, beneath, “Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, I am surrounded still with God.” Psa_139:3. And my lying down,— “When wearied by my journey I lie down to rest, thou dost still bless my lying down.” Psa_139:3. And art acquainted with all my ways. “I cannot tell thee anything which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. “Thou hast put a ring round me both in my stayings and my goings. I go to sleep, but thou dost not sleep. I cannot think of thee while I slumber, but thou dost think of me, and thou ‘ art acquainted with all my ways.’” “Great God, thy penetrating eye Pervades my inmost...