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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 heart searching and rein trying God for his...
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 throne is there, yea, that is his throne; here he...
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 is confirmed by two arguments:—1. God is every...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: The true glory of that bright world.
Charles H. Spurgeon
If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. “The terror of that place of woe, in the land of death-shadow and darkness, thou art living, whoever else is dead. If I make my abode in Hades, in Hell, thou art there.”
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.
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.”
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 would first arrive, And there arrest thy fugitive....
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.”
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 the morning, and yet the hand of God was...