Psalms 139:3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. I am surrounded by thee as by a ring of observers.
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Psalms 139:4
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For [there is] not a word in my tongue,.... Expressed by it or upon it, just ready to be spoken; or, as the Targum, "when there is no word in my tongue:'' so Aben Ezra, "before it was perfect in my tongue:'' before it is formed there; while it is in the mind, and not expressed, and even before that; [but], lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether;...
Psalms 139:4
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. “When it is in my tongue, and not spoken, like a seed sown, hidden away, not yet sprouted, thou, O Jehovah, knowest it altogether!”
Psalms 139:4
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. “Not only the words of my tongue, but the words in my tongue, are known to thee, O Lord.” As we sang just now, “My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known; He knows the words I mean to speak, Ere from my opening lips they break.”
Psalms 139:4
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. He knows the words I mean to speak, Ere from my opening lips they break. God sees the word that is lying quietly on the tongue as well as the word which has been uttered by the tongue. “Thou knowest it altogether.” God’s knowledge is not partial or imperfect. He...
Psalms 139:4
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. “Thou not only knowest what it is, but thou knowest all about it; — even the word which I have not yet spoken, the word that is in my tongue, as well as the word that is on my tongue. Those seeds of speech, that have as yet not grown into words, thou knowest them...
Psalms 139:4
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Not only the words on my tongue, but those that slumber in my tongue, the unspoken words, thou knowest them perfectly and altogether.
Psalms 139:5
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast beset me behind and before,.... Art on every side of me, all around me, like one besieged in a strait place; so that there is nothing I can think, say, or do, but what is known unto thee. The two Kimchis, father and son, render the word, "thou hast formed me": and interpret it of the formation of his body, of which, in Psalms 139:14; see...
Psalms 139:5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. “I am like a prisoner, with guards before me and behind me, and the officer’s hand upon my shoulder all the while. Thou hast arrested me, O Lord; I can never get away from thee.”
Psalms 139:5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. “I am taken as in an ambush: I am held captive; I cannot get away. ‘Thou hast beset me behind and before — more than that, thou hast arrested me, ‘laid thine hand upon me.’”
Psalms 139:5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. “Thou hast come so near me that thou dost touch me. Thou not only knowest my thoughts and my words, but thou dost come into contact with me. Thou dost know me as I know a thing when I feel it with my hand: ‘Thou hast laid thine hand upon me.’”
Psalms 139:5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. “Like men lying in ambush, ‘thou hast beset me behind and before.’ All that I have ever done, and all that I shall ever do, thou knowest it all. I am like one under arrest, upon whom the officer lays his hand so that he may have no opportunity of escaping. I am in thy grip; thou...
Psalms 139:5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Thy presence amounts to actual contact. Thou dost not only see, but touch, like the physician, who does not merely look at the wound, but by-and-bye comes to probe it. So dost thou probe my wounds, and see the depths of my sins.
Psalms 139:6
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me,.... Meaning either the knowledge of himself, such as God had of him, which was vastly superior to what he had of himself; and especially the knowledge of other persons and things, whether visible or invisible, in heaven, earth, or hell; things past, present, and to come; or else the manner in which God...
Psalms 139:6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain up to it. “I believe it, but I cannot understand it; even my imagination cannot picture it to me.”
Psalms 139:6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. “Thou hast it, but I cannot reach it. Thou hast it, but ‘I cannot attain unto it.’”
Psalms 139:6-7
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Not that David desired to go away from God, but he wished to show the impossibility of escaping from the eye of God: “Whither shall I go from thy spirit?”
Psalms 139:6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me! it is too high, I cannot attain unto it. “I cannot climb up to thy glorious throne; the very lowest step of it is far higher than my feet can reach: ‘I cannot attain unto it.’”
Psalms 139:6-7
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? It seems as if the first impulse was to fly away from a God whose attributes were so lofty. ‘Twas but a transient impression, yet David words it so.
Psalms 139:7
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whither shall I go from thy spirit?.... Or, "from thy wind?" which some interpret literally, the wind being God's creature; which he brings out of his treasures, and holds in his fists, and disposes of as he pleases; this takes its circuit through all the points of the heavens, and blows everywhere, more or less. Rather God himself is meant, who...