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Psalms 139:1
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Lord, you have searched me and known me.
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O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
O Lord , you have searched me and known me!For the director of music. A psalm of David.
Lord , you have examined me and know all about me.For the music director, a psalm of David.
O Lord , you examine me and know.O LORD, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me.
LORD, You have searched me and known me.
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To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.
O Yahweh, You have searched me and known me.
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
(A psalm by David for the music leader.)
You have looked deep into my heart, Lord , and you know all about me.For the leader. A psalm of David: Adonai , you have probed me, and you know me.
To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].To the director: A praise song of David.
Lord , you have tested me, so you know all about me.O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.
Lord , you have examined me and you know me.
For the music director. Of David. A psalm.
O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, You have searched me and known me .
O Lorde, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. Thou knowest my downe syttinge & my vprisynge, thou vnderstodest my thoughtes a farre of.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me.For the Leader. A Psalm of David.
[To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.] O Lord, thou hast searched mee, and knowen me.
O God thou hast searched me to the quicke: and thou hast knowen me.
O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
The `title of the hundrid and eiyte and thrittithe salm. `To victorie, the salm of Dauith. Lord, thou hast preued me, and hast knowe me;
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O Yahweh, you have searched me, and known [me].
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
O Lord , you have examined my heart and know everything about me.O Lord, You have looked through me and have known me.
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.
O Lord , you have searched me and known me.(138-1) <Unto the end, a psalm of David.> Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
A David Psalm God , investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight. You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful— I can't take it all in!
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
O Lord , You have searched me and known me.Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou hast: Psalms 139:23, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 11:5, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 44:21, 1 Kings 8:39, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Jeremiah 12:3, Jeremiah 17:9, Jeremiah 17:10, John 21:17, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:18, Revelation 2:23
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:8 - hid Genesis 16:13 - Thou Genesis 18:21 - I will know Joshua 22:22 - he knoweth 1 Samuel 20:12 - O Lord 2 Samuel 7:20 - knowest 2 Samuel 12:9 - to do evil 1 Kings 14:5 - the Lord 2 Kings 6:12 - telleth 2 Kings 19:27 - I know 1 Chronicles 17:18 - thou knowest 2 Chronicles 32:31 - to try him Job 10:7 - Thou knowest Job 10:14 - then Job 14:16 - thou numberest Job 22:14 - General Job 23:10 - he knoweth Job 31:4 - General Job 33:27 - I have sinned Psalms 1:6 - knoweth Psalms 7:9 - for Psalms 73:11 - is there Psalms 73:23 - Nevertheless Psalms 90:8 - Thou Psalms 94:9 - hear Proverbs 5:21 - General Isaiah 29:15 - seek Isaiah 48:8 - thine ear Jeremiah 23:23 - General Obadiah 1:6 - are the Matthew 6:4 - seeth Mark 9:33 - What Luke 16:15 - God Luke 19:5 - he looked John 1:48 - when John 16:19 - Jesus Acts 15:8 - which Acts 17:27 - he be 1 Corinthians 8:3 - is 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - but God 1 John 3:20 - and
Gill's Notes on the Bible
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known [me]. The omniscience of God reaches to all persons and things; but the psalmist only takes notice of it as respecting himself. God knows all men in general, and whatever belongs to them; he knows his own people in a special manner; and he knows their particular persons, as David and others: and this knowledge of God is considered after the manner of men, as if it was the fruit of search, to denote the exquisiteness of it; as a judge searches out a cause, a physician the nature of a disease, a philosopher the reason of things; who many times, after all their inquiries, fail in their knowledge; but the Lord never does: his elect lie in the ruins of the fall, and among the men of the world; he searches them out and finds them; for be knows where they are, and the time of finding them, and can distinguish them in a crowd of men from others, and notwithstanding the sad case they are in, and separates them from them; and he searches into them, into their most inward part, and knows them infinitely better than their nearest relations, friends and acquaintance do; he knows that of them and in them, which none but they themselves know; their thoughts, and the sin that dwells in them: yea, he knows more of them and in them than they themselves, Jeremiah 17:9. And he knows them after another manner than he does other men: there are some whom in a sense he knows not; but these he knows, as he did David, so as to approve of, love and delight in, Matthew 7:23.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
O Lord, thou hast searched me - The word rendered searched, has a primary reference to searching the earth by boring or digging, as for water or metals. See Job 28:3. Then it means to search accurately or closely.
And known me - As the result of that search, or that close investigation. Thou seest all that is in my heart. Nothing is, or can be, concealed from thee. It is with this deep consciousness that the psalm begins; and all that follows is but an expansion and application of this idea. It is of much advantage in suggesting right reflections on our own character, to have this full consciousness that God knows us altogether; that he sees all that there is in our heart; that he has been fully acquainted with our past life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM CXXXIX
A fine account of the omniscience of God, 1-6;
of his omnipresence, 7-12;
of his power and providence, 13-16.
The excellence of his purposes, 17, 18.
His opposition to the wicked, 19, 20;
with whom the godly can have no fellowship, 21, 22.
NOTES ON PSALM CXXXIX
The title of this Psalm in the Hebrew is, To the chief Musician, or, To the Conqueror, A Psalm of David. The Versions in general follow the Hebrew. And yet, notwithstanding these testimonies, there appears internal evidence that the Psalm was not written by David, but during or after the time of the captivity, as there are several Chaldaisms in it. See Psalms 139:2-3; Psalms 139:7; Psalms 139:9; Psalms 139:19-20, collated with Daniel 2:29-30; Daniel 4:16; Daniel 7:28; some of these shall be noticed in their proper places.
As to the author, he is unknown; for it does not appear to have been the work of David. The composition is worthy of him, but the language appears to be lower than his time.
Concerning the occasion, there are many conjectures which I need not repeat, because I believe them unfounded. It is most probable that it was written on no particular occasion, but is a moral lesson on the wisdom, presence, providence, and justice of God, without any reference to any circumstance in the life of David, or in the history of the Jews.
The Psalm is very sublime; the sentiments are grand, the style in general highly elevated, and the images various and impressive. The first part especially, that contains so fine a description of the wisdom and knowledge of God, is inimitable.
Bishop Horsley's account of this Psalm is as follows: -
"In the first twelve verses of this Psalm the author celebrates God's perfect knowledge of man's thoughts and actions; and the reason of this wonderful knowledge, viz., that God is the Maker of man. Hence the psalmist proceeds, in the four following verses, Psalms 139:13-16, to magnify God as ordaining and superintending the formation of his body in the womb. In the 17th and 18th Psalms 139:17-18 he acknowledges God's providential care of him in every moment of his life; and in the remainder of the Psalm implores God's aid against impious and cruel enemies, professing his own attachment to God's service, that is, to the true religion, and appealing to the Searcher of hearts himself for the truth of his professions.
The composition, for the purity and justness of religious sentiment, and for the force and beauty of the images, is certainly in the very first and best style. And yet the frequent Chaldaisms of the diction argue no very high antiquity.
Verse Psalms 139:1. O Lord, thou hast searched me — חקרתני chakartani; thou hast investigated me; thou hast thoroughly acquainted thyself with my whole soul and conduct.
