“ O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. ”
O Lord, thou hast searched me - The word rendered searched, has a primary reference to searching the earth by boring or digging, as for water or metals. See Job 28:3 . Then it means to search ac...
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 the...
Title.. Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. App-65. of David . by David. The words alleged to be Chaldaisms in verses: Psalms 139:3 ; Psalms 139:4 ; Psalms 139:8 , Psa 3:20, are found in the earlier book...
1. O Jehovah! thou hast searched me David declares, in the outset of this Psalm, that he does not come before God with any idea of its being possible to succeed by dissimulation, as hypocrit...
DISCOURSE: 734 THE OMNIPRESENCE AND OMNISCIENCE OF GOD Psalms 139:1-12 . O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoug...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me . O Lord, thou hast searched me - חקרתני chakartani; thou hast investigated me; thou hast thoroughly acquainted t...
David praiseth God for his all-seeing providence, and for his infinite mercies: he defieth the wicked: he prayeth for sincerity. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. Title. מזמור לדוד למ...
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Psalms 139:1-24 .-Yahweh, thou thoroughly knowest me wherever I am ( Psalms 139:1-12 ); for thou hast formed me from the womb, and hast ever preci...
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 ver...
Searched... — Comp. Psalms 44:21 , “shall not God search this out.” The word is used of mining operations, Job 28:3 ; of exploring a country, Judges 18:2 .
Psalms 139:1-24 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...
the All-seeing God Psalms 139:1-13 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...
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 firs...
CONTENTS This Psalm was written by David; but it is evident that he was directed by the Holy Spirit to say in it much concerning Christ. In the former part, he dwells upon the divine perfections in...
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 139:1-2 ‘Our fellowship is with...
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. The omniscience of God reaches to all persons and things; but the psalmist only takes notice of it as respecting himself. God knows all men in general...
Psalms 139:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. A Psalm of David ] There is not in all the five books of psalms so notable a one as this,...
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...
The Omniscience of God. To the chief musician. A psalm of David. 1 O L ORD , thou hast searched me, and known me....
PSALM 139 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm is esteemed by the Hebrews the most excellent in the whole book. The matter of it is noble and sublime, and so is the style. The occasion of it seems to have been...
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 t...
Psalms 139:1-2 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 ste...
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.»...
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 t...
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 Br...
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...
1 Chronicles 28:9 ; 1 Kings 8:39 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Jeremiah 12:3 ; Jeremiah 17:10 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; John 21:17 ; Psalms 11:4 ; Psalms 11:5 ; Psalms 139:23 ; Psalms 17:3 ; Psalms 44:21 ; R...
Thou God Seest Me Selections from Psalms 139:1-24 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 auth...