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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_....
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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...
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Psalms 139
In the Divine Presence
_ 1. His omniscience (Psalms 139:1)_
2. His omnipresence (Psalms 139:7)
3. Praising Him ...
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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...
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God is everywhere present: man cannot escape or hide himself....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IF I SAY] The text has,' and I said.' COVER] some, with slight change,
render 'screen me,' and this is evidently the thought of the Psalmist.
EVEN THE NIGHT, etc.] RV 'and the light about me shall be...
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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...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING
PSALMS 139
Jesus said, "Your Father (God) knows how many hairs there are on your
head!" ...
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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...
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וָ֭ אֹמַר אַךְ ־חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי
וְ֝ לַ֗
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, _...
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_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...
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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...
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Psalms 139:11 say H559 (H8799) darkness H2822 fall H7779 (H8799) night
H3915 light H216 me H1157
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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 divided...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 29:15; Jeremiah 23:24; Job 12:22; Job 22:12; Psalms 10:11;...
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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...