Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 139:18
[If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, (n) I am still with thee.
(n) I continually see new opportunity to meditate in your wisdom, and to praise you.
[If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, (n) I am still with thee.
(n) I continually see new opportunity to meditate in your wisdom, and to praise you.
Verse Psalms 139:18. IF _I SHOULD COUNT THEM_] I should be glad to enumerate so many interesting particulars: but they are beyond calculation. _WHEN I AWAKE_] Thou art my Governor and Protector night...
IF I SHOULD COUNT THEM - If I could count them. THEY ARE MORE IN NUMBER THAN THE SAND - Numberless as the sand on the sea-shore. WHEN I AWAKE, I AM STILL WITH THEE - When I am lost in deep and profou...
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...
MORE IN NUMBER... SAND. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6....
God must know the Psalmist perfectly, for He ordered the first beginnings of his life, and foresaw all his destiny....
_moe_ For this archaism cp. Psalms 69:4. _when I awake_&c. His last thoughts as he falls asleep are of God; and when he awakes, he finds himself still in His Presence, still occupied in contemplating...
DISCOURSE: 735 A CHRISTIAN’S DELIGHT IN GOD Psalms 139:17. _How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the s...
HOW PRECIOUS, &C.— This expresses the zeal and affection that he had for God. "As thou hast taken such care of me, so are the thoughts of thee precious to me above all things." The turn of the sentenc...
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...
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. IF I SHOULD COUNT THEM, THEY ARE MORE IN NUMBER THAN THE SAND - "which cannot be measured nor number...
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...
I AM STILL WITH THEE] either, 'my thoughts still go out to thee and thy wonders,' or, 'I am still in thy thought as an object of care and love.'...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING PSALMS 139 Jesus said, "Your Father (God) knows how many hairs there are on your head!" ...
IF I SHOULD... — The original is more expressive: — “Let me count them — more than the sand they are many: I have awaked — and still with thee.” With the countless mysteries of creation and providen...
אֶ֭סְפְּרֵם מֵ חֹ֣ול יִרְבּ֑וּן הֱ֝קִיצֹ֗תִי וְ...
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...
GOD'S THOUGHTS AND OURS Psalms 139:14 _ God's creative power,_ Psalms 139:14. The psalmist goes back to the beginning of life and describes the weaving of our physical nature. Here we may discover a...
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...
Under the idea that we may consider what is said before in this Psalm as spoken in the person of Christ, how blessed are the expressions in these verses! When Jesus, as the Head of his church, contemp...
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...
IF I SHOULD COUNT THEM, THEY ARE MORE IN NUMBER THAN THE SAND,...., That is, if I should attempt to do it, it would be as vain and fruitless as to attempt to count the sands upon the seashore, which a...
Psalms 139:18 [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. Ver. 18. _If I should count them, &c._] _q.d._ They are infinite and immmerable. Arc...
_How precious also_, &c. “From the wonders of God's forming hand, the psalmist proceeds to those of his all-directing providence, which afford additional proofs of the divine omniscience and omniprese...
17-24 God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him. It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all...
To wit, by my thoughts and meditations. Thy wonderful counsels and works on my behalf come constantly into my mind, not only in the day time, but even in the night season, which is commonly devoted to...
Psalms 139:18 count H5608 (H8799) number H7235 (H8799) sand H2344 awake H6974 (H8689) still H5750...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_When I awake, I am still with Thee._ A CHRISTIAN AWAKENING WITH GOD I. His disposition. 1. It is the care and endeavour of a good man when he awakes to be still with God. (1) The time. (A) When...
_How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God._ THOUGHTS OF GOD The sense of God’s nearness brings thoughts of God. The devout soul cherishes these thoughts, and they become to it a joy unspeak...
_For Thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb._ GOD AS THE CREATOR OF MAN I. He created man, who is a wonder to man’s self (verses 13, 14). II. He created man, who come...
_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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 139:17 These verses provide the right response to the vast extent of God’s THOUGHTS. Verse Psalms 139:18 seems to picture the hopelessne
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 Thessalonians 5:10; Daniel 12:2; Isaiah 26:19; Psalms 40:12;...
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...
Them — Thy wonderful counsels and works on my behalf come constantly into my mind....