Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 139:2
Afar off — Thou knowest what my thoughts will be in such and such circumstances, long before I know it, yea from all eternity.
Afar off — Thou knowest what my thoughts will be in such and such circumstances, long before I know it, yea from all eternity.
Verse Psalms 139:2. _MY DOWNSITTING AND MINE UPRISING_] Even these inconsiderable and casual things are under thy continual notice. I cannot so much as _take a seat_, or _leave it_, without being mark...
THOU KNOWEST MY DOWNSITTING ... - In the various circumstances of life, thou knowest me. Thou knowest me in one place as well as in another. I cannot so change my position that thou will not see me, a...
Psalms 139 In the Divine Presence _ 1. His omniscience (Psalms 139:1)_ 2. His omnipresence (Psalms 139:7) 3. Praising Him ...
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...
DOWNSITTING... UPRISING. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), App-6, put for all movements. THOUGHTS INWARD THOUGHT. Occurs only here and in Psalms 139:17....
_Thou knowest Thou_is emphatic. It is God alone Who possesses this absolute knowledge of His creatures. _my downsitting and mine uprising_ My whole life, at rest or in activity. Cp. Psalms 127:2; Deu...
God's perfect knowledge of all the Psalmist's life and thoughts....
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...
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...
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. THOU KNOWEST MY DOWN-SITTING AND MINE UP-RISING - "my down-sitting," to rest after work, and "mine up-rising,...
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...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING PSALMS 139 Jesus said, "Your Father (God) knows how many hairs there are on your head!" ...
DOWN-SITTING AND UPRISING — as in Deuteronomy 6:7, to denote the whole daily life — business and rest. THOUGHT. — An Aramaic form found nowhere else, but, from one possible derivation (“companion”),...
אַתָּ֣ה יָ֭דַעְתָּ שִׁבְתִּ֣י וְ קוּמִ֑י בַּ֥נְתָּה...
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...
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'...
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...
Thou knowest my (a) downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. (a) He confesses that neither our actions, thoughts or any part of our life can be hid from God, though he s...
_Man. Saul, (Calmet) Judas, (St. Hilary) or self-love, the old man, who is our most dangerous enemy. (Berthier)_...
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...
_THE INDWELLING GOD_ ‘O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.’ Psalms 139:1 ‘Our fellowship is with the F...
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...
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...
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Ver. 2. _Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising_] All my postures, gestures, practices, _sive sedeam, siv...
_O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me_ That is, known me exactly, as men know those things which they diligently search out. _Thou knowest my down-sitting_, &c. All my postures and motions; my...
1-6 God has perfect knowledge of us, and all our thoughts and actions are open before him. It is more profitable to meditate on Divine truths, applying them to our own cases, and with hearts lifted t...
KNOWN ME, i.e. known me exactly, as men do those things which they diligently search out. MY DOWNSITTING AND MINE UPRISING; all my postures and motions, my actions and my cessations from action. MY TH...
Psalms 139:2 know H3045 (H8804) down H3427 (H8800) up H6965 (H8800) understand H995 (H8804) thought...
Psalms 139:1 I. Deep indeed and mysterious, far beyond what we can understand, are our own ordinary sleeping and waking; we know not how it is that the soothing quietness which we call sleep steals ov...
Psalms 139:1 The fact that God is always present and knows every minute trifle in our lives, and that His unerring judgment will assuredly take count of every detail of our character and conduct, neit...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Kings 19:27; 2 Kings 6:12; Ezekiel 38:10;...
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...