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Psalms 139:7-8

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: For so it runs in the Hebrew. The translators put in the word “art”, as you can see by the italics. “If I ascend up into heaven, thou there,” that is all the psalmist says.

Psalms 139:7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? “Thou art everywhere, and thy far-seeing eye will behold me in every place; vain is it, therefore, for me to think that I can ever flee from thy presence.” Is it not a very striking thought that every sin is committed in the presence of God? He must be a very bold rebel who would insult his monarch to his...

Psalms 139:7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Whither shall I go from thy spirit! or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? “I do not want to do so, but it would be quite impossible for me to flee from thy presence even it I wished to do so. Neither by steady marching, nor by rapid flight, can I get away from thee.”

Psalms 139:8

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there,.... No man hath ascended or can ascend to heaven of himself; it is an hyperbolical expression, as are those that follow; none but Christ has ascended to heaven by his own power, who descended from it; saints hope to go there at death, and, when they do, they find God there; that is his habitation, his...

Psalms 139:8

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou. Again it is more emphatic without the words supplied by the translators. “Thou, O God, art in the depths as well as in the heights, Thou art everything in every place, all in all art thou.”

Psalms 139:8-10

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Well did Dr. Watts write,— If mounted on a morning ray,? I fly beyond the western sea, Thy swifter hand...

Psalms 139:8

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: The Hebrew is, “Thou there;” as if there was nothing else there but God. Psa_139:8. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. This seemed even more wonderful to the psalmist than that God was in heaven; so he put in a “behold “ — “ Behold, thou.”

Psalms 139:8

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

; Psa_139:10. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold, me. How swift he supposes his flight to be, as swift as the light, for he borrows the wings of...

Psalms 139:9

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

[If] I take the wings of the morning,.... And fly as swift as the morning light to the east, to the extremity of it, as Ben Melech; as far as he could go that way, as swiftly as the wings of the morning could carry him thither; so the morning is represented by the Heathens as having wings (f); or as the rays of the rising sun, called wings for the...

Psalms 139:9-10

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, “If the breath of the morning breeze should bear me far away across the pathless sea, thou art there before me; if I ride upon a flash of light, thou art swifter than the sunbeam: even there shall thy hand lead me.” The lone...

Psalms 139:10

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Even there shall thy hand lead me,.... For he could not get there with all the assistance of the wings of the morning, could they be had, without the leadings of divine Providence; and when there, being a good man, should experience the leadings of divine grace; let the people of God be where they will, he heads them as a parent his child,...

Psalms 139:10-12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. It is impossible to conceive that God should need the light in order to see. He can see as well in the...

Psalms 139:10-11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. “There is no escaping that way, for the night shall be transformed into light; and I shall be as clearly perceived in the darkness as in the daylight.”

Psalms 139:10

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. “I cannot go there except by thy leading, and I shall not be there except by thine uplifting. There is no way by which I can keep away from God even if I try to do so. If, instead of living in the light, I seek to hide myself in the darkness, what then ?”

Psalms 139:11

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me,.... The darkness of a cloud or of the night, so that my actions shall not be seen; that is, if I entertain such a thought in my mind, that what I do in the dark will escape the sight and knowledge of God, and so be emboldened to commit it; even the night shall be light about me; and make all my works...

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