Psalms 139:11
What meaning of the psalms 139:11 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 139:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me."
What does Psalms 139:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me."
Verse Psalms 139:11. _SURELY THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME_] Should I suppose that this would serve to screen me, immediately this _darkness_ is turned into _light_....
IF I SAY, SURELY THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME - If I seek to find refuge in the darkness of the night so that God would not see me. The word rendered “cover” - שׁוף _shûph_ - means properly to snap, t...
Psalms 139 In the Divine Presence _ 1. His omniscience (Psalms 139:1)_ 2. His omnipresence (Psalms 139:7) 3. Praising Him (Psalms 139:13) 4. Delighting in His holiness (Psalms 139:19) Here we se...
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...
God is everywhere present: man cannot escape or hide himself....
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...
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. IF I SAY, SURELY THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME; EVEN THE NIGHT SHALL BE LIGHT ABOUT ME. "Cover" - literally, brui...
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!" (MATTHEW 10:30) PSALMS 139 (This is) for the music...
IF I SAY... — Rather, I say only let darkness crush me, And light become night around me. Commentators have mostly been frightened by the metaphor in the first line, though it has been preserved both...
וָ֭ אֹמַר אַךְ ־חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְ֝ לַ֗יְלָה אֹ֣ור בַּעֲדֵֽנִי׃...
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...
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be (g) light about me. (g) Though darkness is a hinderance to man's sight, yet is serves your eyes as well as the light....
_Fire of hell, (Worthington; Chaldean) as well as temporal afflictions, from lightning, &c., Psalm xvii. 9. (Haydock) --- Some have ridiculed the belief of hell. But the universality of this opinion i...
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...
11._If I shall say, _etc. David represents himself as a man using every possible method to make his escape from a situation of embarrassment. So having acknowledged that it was vain to dream of flight...
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 SAY, SURELY THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER ME,.... The darkness of a cloud or of the night, so that my actions shall not be seen; that is, if I entertain such a thought in my mind, that what I do in th...
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Ver. 11. _The darkness shall cover me_] The Hebrew phrase is taken from beasts that lie a-squat, saith Diodati, _...
_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 re...
Shall be as clear and manifest to God as the light itself....
Psalms 139:11 say H559 (H8799) darkness H2822 fall H7779 (H8799) night H3915 light H216 me H1157 Surely - Psalms 10:11-13, Psalms 94:7; Job 22:12-14; Isaiah 29:15;...
Psalms 139:11 I. There is the darkness of perplexity. If ever it be worth while to think over what have been our most unhappy moments, we shall find that they have been those when our mind was divide...
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 Broug...
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 psal...
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...
Isaiah 29:15; Jeremiah 23:24; Job 12:22; Job 22:12; Psalms 10:11; Psalms 94:7...
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...