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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 139:15

In the lowest parts of the earth] Probably the writer is speaking poetically of the mysterious origin of a human personality in the womb.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 139:15. _MY SUBSTANCE WAS NOT HID FROM THEE_] עצמי _atsmi_, my _bones_ or _skeleton_. _CURIOUSLY WROUGHT_] רקמתי _rukkamti_, embroidered, _made of_ _needlework_. These two words, says B...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MY SUBSTANCE WAS NOT HID FROM THEE - Thou didst see it; thou didst understand it altogether, when it was hidden from the eyes of man. The word “substance” is rendered in the margin, “strength” or “bod...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 139 In the Divine Presence _ 1. His omniscience (Psalms 139:1)_ 2. His omnipresence (Psalms 139:7) 3. Praising Him ...

  • 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 theme...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SUBSTANCE. frame. Hebrew. bone, as in Genesis 2:21; Genesis 2:22. CURIOUSLY. skillfully. Hebrew. embroidered. Compare Exodus 26:1; Exodus 35:35

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    God must know the Psalmist perfectly, for He ordered the first beginnings of his life, and foresaw all his destiny....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _my substance_ R.V. my frame, lit. _my bones_or _skeleton_. _in secret_ i.e. in the womb (Psalms 139:13). _curiously wrought_ i.e. fashioned with skill and care. (_Curious_= Lat. _curiosus_, -wrought...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CURIOUSLY WROUGHT— Bishop Lowth, speaking of _images_ in the Hebrew poetry, taken from _things sacred,_ has the following observation: "In that most perfect hymn, where the immensity of the Omnipresen...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. MY SUBSTANCE WAS NOT HID FROM THEE, WHEN I WAS MADE IN SECRET "My substance" -...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    139:15 were (d-3) Or 'framework was.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING PSALMS 139 Jesus said, "Your Father (God) knows how many hairs there are on your head!" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SUBSTANCE. — Aquila “bones,” LXX. and Vulg. “bone,” Symmachus “strength.” Perhaps, generally, _body._ But the common Hebrew word for bone differs only in the pointing. IN SECRET. — Comp. _Æ_sch. _Eum...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־נִכְחַ֥ד עָצְמִ֗י מִ֫מֶּ֥ךָּ אֲשֶׁר ־עֻשֵּׂ֥יתִי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 first...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought (k) in the lowest parts of the earth. (k) That is, in my mother's womb: which he compares to the inward parts of...

  • 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 lik...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._My strength was not hid from thee _That nothing is hid from God David now begins to prove from the way in which man is at first formed, and points out God’s superiority to other artificers in this...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MY SUBSTANCE WAS NOT HID FROM THEE WHEN I WAS MADE IN SECRET,.... Or "my bone" n; everyone of his bones, which are the substantial parts of the body, the strength of it; and so some render it "my stre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Ver. 15. _My substance was not hid from thee_] _Ossatio mea, id est, ossium et...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _My substance was not hid from thee_ Hebrews עצמי, _my bone._ So the LXX. το οστουν μου. _Bone_ may be here taken collectively for _bones_, or, rather for the whole fabric of the bones: or may be put...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SUBSTANCE: Or, strength or body...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MY SUBSTANCE; or, _My bone_, as the LXX. and others render the word. And _bone_ may be here taken collectively for bones, as is usual in such words, or for the whole fabric of the bones And the bones...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 139:15 frame H6108 hidden H3582 (H8738) made H6213 (H8795) secret H5643 wrought H7551 (H8795) parts...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 to...

  • 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 Brough...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My substance was not hid from Thee, when I was made in secret._ DAILY GROWTH God, being one, the author of nature as of grace, worketh harmoniously in both His kingdoms. And as in other ways, so in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 139:13 These verses illustrate the point of vv. Psalms 139:11 by describing a particular “dark place” where the Lord saw and cared for the singer, namely, his...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 139:15 IN THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH. As a parallel to IN SECRET, this would be a poetic expression for the darkness and secrecy of the womb....

  • The 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 the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 4:9; Exodus 11:5; Job 10:9; Psalms 63:9; Psalms 139:13...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Can it be inferred from this verse that the Bible considers abortion to be murder? PROBLEM: According to this passage, God looks upon the unborn as a human being. However, if the unborn is fully huma...

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