Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Psalms 139:12
hideth not:
Heb. darkeneth not
the darkness and the light:
Heb. as is the darkness so is the light
hideth not:
Heb. darkeneth not
the darkness and the light:
Heb. as is the darkness so is the light
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...
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...
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...
HIDETH NOT FROM. cannot be too dark for....
God is everywhere present: man cannot escape or hide himself....
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...
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...
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. YEA, THE DARKNESS HIDETH NOT FROM THEE. Hengstenberg, in conformity with...
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!" ...
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...
גַּם ־חֹשֶׁךְ֮ לֹֽא ־יַחְשִׁ֪יךְ מִ֫מֶּ֥ךָ וְ֭...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
_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...
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...
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...
Psalms 139:12 darkness H2822 hide H2821 (H8686) night H3915 shines H215 (H8686) day H3117 darkness H2825 light...
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._ «Thou hast explored me, as men dig in mines, and make subterranean excavations. Thou hast searched into my secret parts, and known me.» P...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Daniel 2:22; Exodus 14:20; Exodus 20:21; Hebrews 4:13; Job 26:6;...
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...