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Psalm 139 is best known for its first verse, which states: “O LORD, You have searched me and known me.” As a hymn psalm attributed to King David, it is used to proclaim and sing about the glory of God and His wonderful works.
Psalm 139 – Praise and Prayer to the God Who Knows All and Is Everywhere. Psalm 139 – The Ever-Present God. This magnificent psalm is titled For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. It does not surprise us that such a significant psalm came from David’s pen, who was “the sweet psalmist of Israel” (2 Samuel 23:1).
Psalm 139 is a personal prayer and song of praise to God. David’s heartfelt journey with God, through the good, bad, challenging, and unbelievable, remains alive and relatable...
This psalm speaks of the pervasive presence of God, and his intimate knowledge of us, which offer us an outsized measure of hope and comfort in the face of adversity and trial. But what does the psalm mean and how are its four poetic movements connected?
In effect, Psalm 139 says to both accused and accusers, “As God is my witness, I am innocent of the crimes of which you accuse me.” That is what the Psalmist is asking God to do. Be a witness for me.
1. (Psalm 139:1-6) The all-knowing God knows me. O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
He sees us when we walk and when we lie down; in other words, He keeps a constant watch on us. None of our ways are hidden from Him. He knows what we are going to say before we even say it. The future as well as the past and present is completely open to Him.
1. The glory of it is here given to God, entirely to him; for it is he that has made us and not we ourselves. "I will praise thee, the author of my being; my parents were only the instruments of it." It was done, (1.)
Psalm 139:1-3. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me — That is, known me exactly, as men know those things which they diligently search out. Thou knowest my down-sitting, &c. — All my postures and motions; my actions, and my cessation from action.
Expositor's Bible Commentary. Psalm 139:1. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Psalm 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.