--- title: "Psalms 139 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 139 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 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" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/139" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/139)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/139)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/139) Audio 1 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 down, and 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 cannot *attain* unto it. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou *art* there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou *art there*. 9 *If* I take the wings of the morning, *and* dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light *are* both alike *to thee*.** 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully *and* wonderfully made: marvellous *are* thy works; and *that* my soul knoweth right well.* 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, *and* curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.* 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all *my members* were written, *which* in continuance were fashioned, when *as yet there was* none of them.** 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18 *If* I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. 19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. 20 For they speak against thee wickedly, *and* thine enemies take *thy name* in vain. 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if *there be any* wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.* [Psalms 138](/study/psalms/138) [Psalms 140](/study/psalms/140) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 139:0](/kjv/psalms/139/0). *David praiseth God for his all-seeing providence, and for his infinite mercies: he defieth the wicked: he prayeth for sincerity.* To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. ***Title.*****מזמור********לדוד********למנצה*********lamnatseach ledavid mizmor.*****—** This psalm is generally thought to have been composed by David when he lay under the imputation of having evil designs against Saul: in which view, it is a solemn appeal to the divine omnipresence and omniscience, for his innocence in that matter: the Psalmist tacitly and elegantly intimating hereby, how foolish as well as impious it would be for him to prevaricate and dissemble with a God, whose knowledge and power it was impossible to elude. But it is Mr. Mudge's opinion, from the strong tincture of Chaldaism in the psalm, that it was written in or after the captivity. Be that as it may, the sentiments it contains are most noble and elevated. There is a peculiar beauty and a sublimity in the representation of the divine attributes in it, which deserve particular attention. The psalm begins with a devout contemplation of the omniscience of God; not, indeed, expressly considered in its utmost extent, as it penetrates at once, with an exact and infallible comprehension, through the whole scope of created nature, and reaches to the utmost verge and limits of the universe: nor as, together with the present system and complete actual state of things, it has an intuitive and clear view of the past, and conceives the most obscure and remote futurities, and all possible natures and modes of existence; but as it particularly respects mankind, and more immediately influences human morality and a serious humble discharge of all the duties of religion. *O Lord!*says the Psalmist, in a most elevated strain of thought and expression, *thou hast searched,*&c. to [Psalms 139:6](/kjv/psalms/139/6). This thought impressed upon his mind such a veneration and awe of the great Deity, the fountain and support of universal life and being, and he found his faculties so swallowed up, and as it were lost in meditating on so deep and immense a subject, that man's reason, in its utmost pride and glory, and with its most boasted improvements and acquisitions of knowledge, seemed now so debased, so weak, so narrow, and, in comparison with infinity, so despicable, that the author of this psalm could proceed no further without expressing his admiration at a boundless scope of intelligence, which he could neither explain nor comprehend; and therefore he immediately adds; *such knowledge,*&c. [Psalms 139:6](/kjv/psalms/139/6). 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