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Verse Psalms 139:12. _YEA, THE DARKNESS HIDETH NOT FROM THEE_]
Darkness and light, ignorance and knowledge, are things that stand in
relation to us; God sees equally in _darkness_ as in _light_; and...
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YEA, THE DARKNESS HIDETH NOT FROM THEE - Margin, as in Hebrew,
“darkeneth not.” Darkness does not make darkness to thee. It makes
things dark to us; not to him. So it is in natural darkness; so in
mor...
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Psalms 139
In the Divine Presence
_ 1. His omniscience (Psalms 139:1)_
2. His omnipresence (Psalms 139:7)
3. Praising Him ...
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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...
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HIDETH NOT FROM. cannot be too dark for....
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And if I say, Nay, but darkness might shroud me,
And the light about me become night;
Even darkness hideth not from thee, &c.
It is as impossible to hide from God under cover of darkness as it is
t...
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God is everywhere present: man cannot escape or hide himself....
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DISCOURSE: 734
THE OMNIPRESENCE AND OMNISCIENCE OF GOD
Psalms 139:1. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou
knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my
thought afar of...
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PSALMS 139
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
An Individual submits Himself to Jehovah's All-Searching Eye.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 139:1-6, Jehovah's Knowledge considered as Taking
into View every Form of Human...
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One of the very greatest of the Pss. No grander tribute has ever been
paid to the omniscience and omnipresence of God. The Ps. is ascribed
to David, but the Hebrew is decisive in favour of a date very...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING
PSALMS 139
Jesus said, "Your Father (God) knows how many hairs there are on your
head!" ...
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HIDETH NOT. — Better to keep as near as possible to the original
_maketh not dark._ Others render _cannot be too dark for thee._ The
highest development of the psalmist’s thought is of course to be
fo...
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גַּם ־חֹשֶׁךְ֮ לֹֽא ־יַחְשִׁ֪יךְ
מִ֫מֶּ֥ךָ וְ֭...
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Psalms 139:1
THIS is the noblest utterance in the Psalter of pure contemplative
theism, animated and not crushed by the thought of God's omniscience
and omnipresence. No less striking than the unequal...
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THE ALL-SEEING GOD
Psalms 139:1
The psalmist speaks as if there were only two beings in the
universe-God and himself. In all literature there is no nobler
conception of the divine attributes.
_ God'...
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The conception of intimate personal relation between God and man is
perhaps more remarkably and forcefully dealt with in this song than in
any other in the whole collection.
The great facts are first...
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_Tongue. This member is very dangerous. (Pet. Bless. cxix.) (James
iii. 6.) --- The just man is nt styled "a man of tongue," but "of
heart;" for which reason Christ exhorted his disciples not to make...
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I would not make a chasm in the reading of these verses, because the
latter of them, according to my view, throw a light upon the former.
It may, no doubt, be truly said by David, and by every man lik...
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Psalms 139 shows the complete exercise of heart that belongs to God's
ways. Though the faithfulness of God perfects all His purposed
blessing, not a thought escapes God. There is, morally speaking, no...
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YEA, THE DARKNESS HIDETH NOT FROM THEE,.... Any thing that is done by
men in it; or "darkeneth not from thee" i, or causeth such darkness as
to hinder the sight of any action committed. The Targum is,...
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Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the
day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].
Ver. 12. _Yea, the darkness hideth not_] Heb. darkeneth not from thee,...
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_Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?_ From thy knowledge and
observation; or, from thee who art a Spirit? _Whither shall I flee
from thy presence?_ I can go nowhere but thou art there, observing and
j...
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HIDETH NOT:
_ Heb._ darkeneth not
THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT:
_ Heb._ as is the darkness so is the light...
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7-16 We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not
desire to go from the Lord. Whither can I go? In the most distant
corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy
r...
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SHINETH, or _enlighteneth_, as this word is used, PSALMS 19:8 PROVERBS
29:13, &c.; discovereth me and all mine actions. THE DARKNESS AND THE
LIGHT ARE BOTH ALIKE TO THEE: this is repeated so oft to re...
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Psalms 139:12 darkness H2822 hide H2821 (H8686) night H3915 shines
H215 (H8686) day H3117 darkness H2825 light...
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This is a Psalm we can never read too often. It will be to us one of
the greatest safeguards against sin if we have its teaching constantly
before our mind's eye, and the teaching of this Psalm is sim...
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In this Psalm, David praises God by specially dwelling upon the one
attribute of omniscience. If we really wish to praise God, we must
think of him as he is, and it is the best praise that we can rend...
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May the all-seeing God, of whom this Psalm speaks, look down upon us
and bless us richly while we read it!
Psalms 139:1. _O LORD thou hast searched me, and known me._
«Known me perfectly, far better...
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Psalms 139:1. _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, th...
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Psalms 139:1. _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.»
P...
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CONTENTS: Meditation upon the doctrines of God's omniscience and
omnipresence.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: The God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of
us and all the motions a...
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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...
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_The darkness and the light._
THE CHANGES OF THE SKY
What is the lesson conveyed by the great alternate changes of the sky?
Now it is sweetly luminous, and now a solemn darkness. Strictly
speaking, a...
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_O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me._
GOD’S EXHAUSTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN
This lyric has always been the subject of praise. Aben Ezra said there
was none like it in the five books. Lord Brough...
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DARKNESS AND LIGHT
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Psalms 139:12.
I wonder how many boys and girls here are afraid of the dark? I'm not
going to ask those who are afraid to hold u...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 139:1. The closing request of this hymn
(“search me, O God, and know my heart”) echoes the opening
statement. This highlights the psalm’s theme: God’s knowledge of
his peopl...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 139:7 The next section makes it clear that
there is no way the singer can escape such knowledge. There is nowhere
in the universe that God will not be present to LEAD and HOLD the...
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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 the...
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EXPOSITION
A song of praise to God for his omniscience, his omnipresence, and his
marvelous powers, ending with a prayer for the destruction of the
wicked, and for the purifying from evil of the psalm...
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Psa 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).
Recogniz...
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Daniel 2:22; Exodus 14:20; Exodus 20:21; Hebrews 4:13; Job 26:6;...
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THOU GOD SEEST ME
_Selections from Psalms 139:1_
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 p...