Psalm 139:13 NIV

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 139:1-24

The Searching of God Psalms 139:1 We are prone to associate the searching-work of God with events of a striking or memorable kind. It is in great calamities and overwhelming sorrow that we feel with peculiar vividness God's presence. When Job was in the enjoyment of prosperity he was an eminently reverent man; but it was in the hour of his black and bitter midnight that he cried out, 'The hand of God hath touched me'. And that same spirit lodges in every breast, so that God's searching comes... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 139:1-24

Psalms 139:1-24THIS 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 unequalled force and sublimity with which the psalm hymns the majestic attributes of an all-filling, all-knowing, all-creating God, is the firmness with which the singer’s personal relation to that God is grasped. Only in the last verses is there reference to other men. In the earlier parts of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 139:1-24

Psalms 139:0 In the Divine Presence 1. His omniscience (Psalms 139:1-6 ) 2. His omnipresence (Psalms 139:7-12 ) 3. Praising Him (Psalms 139:13-18 ) 4. Delighting in His holiness (Psalms 139:19-24 ) Here we see the people of God in the light of God, standing in His presence. He is an omniscient and an omnipresent God. How marvellously this is given in this Psalm. And what a comfort to know that He knoweth, that He seeth, that He is about us, around us, with us everywhere, that His hand... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 139:13

139:13 For thou hast {h} possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.(h) You have made me in all parts and therefore must know me. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 139:1-24

Psalms 135:0 Praises God for choosing Jacob (Psalms 135:1-4 ), extols His power in the natural world (Psalms 135:5-7 ), and in the deliverance of His people from Egypt (Psalms 135:8-9 ) and bringing them into the promised land (Psalms 135:10-12 ). All this is in contrast to the vanity of idols (Psalms 135:13-18 ). Psalms 136:0 Is of the same character as the preceding, but is notable for the chorus attached to each verse a chorus with which we have become familiar in other psalms (Psalms 106:1... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 139:2-16

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 like David, that the Lord that made us, knows whereof we are made, and that nothing can escape his all-pervading eye. He knoweth our down-sitting, and our uprising, and understandeth our thoughts afar off; everywhere, and in all places, he is present, and seeth an d knoweth all things. But though such... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 139:13

I know. Hebrew, "thou knowest." But some copies read more accurately. (Houbigant) --- Poor. Thus, in the end, was Lazarus treated. [Luke xvi. 22.] (Worthington) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 139:7-16

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 reach. No veil can hide us from God; not the thickest darkness. No disguise can save any person or action from being seen in the true light by him. Secret haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. On the other hand, the believer cannot be removed from the supporting, comforting... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 139:13-24

David now describes the creative power and providence of God and adds a prayer extolling the Lord and appealing for a just trial. v. 13. For Thou hast possessed my reins, that is, formed, framed, fashioned the organs of his body in creation; Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb, that is, plaited or weaved the body before birth, as the bones, sinews, and flesh took shape. v. 14. I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, in a manner which produces awe and reverence at... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 139:1-24

Psalms 139:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising;Thou understandest my thought afar off.3 Thou compassest my path and my lying downAnd art acquainted with all my ways.4 For there is not a word in my tongue,But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.5 Thou hast beset me behind and before,And laid thine hand upon me.6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me:It is high, I... read more