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IF I TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING - literally, “I will take the
wings of the morning.” That is, I will take this as a supposable
case; I will imagine what would occur, should I be able to take to
mys...
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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 (Psalms 139:13)
4. Delighting in His holiness (Psalms 139:19)
Here we se...
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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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WINGS OF THE MORNING. See note on sub-scription of Psalms 21....
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God is everywhere present: man cannot escape or hide himself....
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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 take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea;
IF I TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING, AND DWELL IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS
OF THE SEA - a poetic phrase to express the in...
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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!" (MATTHEW 10:30)
PSALMS 139
(This is) for the music...
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IF... — Literally,
I lift wings of dawn
I dwell in the end of the sea.
THE WINGS OF THE MORNING. — This exquisite image suggesting not only
the pinions of cloud that seem often to lift the dawn into...
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אֶשָּׂ֥א כַנְפֵי ־שָׁ֑חַר
אֶ֝שְׁכְּנָ֗ה בְּ אַחֲרִ֥ית יָֽם׃...
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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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_Desire. If I yield to my passions, (St. Augustine) or after I have
expressed my request, contrary to my desire, &c. Hebrew, "Grant not
the desire of the sinner, complete not his thought. They will be...
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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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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 TAKE THE WINGS OF THE MORNING,.... And fly as swift as the
morning light to the east, to the extremity of it, as Ben Melech; as
far as he could go that way, as swiftly as the wings of the morni...
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Psalms 139:9 [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea;
Ver. 9. _If I take the wings of the morning_] The morning light is
diffused in an instant all the who...
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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 re...
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If I should flee as swiftly from try presence as the morning light
doth, which in an instant scattereth itself from east to west; for the
sea being the western border of Canaan, is oft put for the wes...
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Psalms 139:9 take H5375 (H8799) wings H3671 morning H7837 dwell H7931
(H8799) parts H319 sea H3220
the wings - Psalms 18:10, Psalms 19:6; Malachi 4:2
dwell - Psalms 74:16-17;...
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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 Broug...
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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 psal...
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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 24:14; Malachi 4:2; Psalms 18:10; Psalms 19:6; Psalms 74:1;
Psalms 74:16...
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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...
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The wings — If I should flee from east to west: for the sea being
the western border of Canaan, is often put for the west in scripture.
And wings are poetically ascribed to the morning here, as they a...