Psalms 139:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yea, the darkness hidethb not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. ”

• Psalms 139:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 i...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  hideth not from . cannot be too dark for.

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• Psalms 139:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 - Darkness and light, ignorance...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 conformit...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 li...

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• Psalms 139:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 the...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Omniscience of God.       7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?   8 If I ascen...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 repeat...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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.»...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 139:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 2:22 ; Exodus 14:20 ; Exodus 20:21 ; Hebrews 4:13 ; Job 26:6 ; Job 34:22

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• Psalms 139:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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