Chapter 139

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thou hast Ps 139:23, Ps 11:4-5, Ps 17:3, Ps 44:21; 1Kgs 8:39; 1Chr 28:9; Jer 12:3, Jer 17:9-10; John 21:17; Heb 4:13; Rev 2:18, Rev 2:23


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knowest Ps 56:8; Gen 16:13; 2Kgs 6:12, 2Kgs 19:27; Prov 15:3; Isa 37:28; Zech 4:10

understandest Ps 94:11; Matt 9:4; Luke 9:47; John 2:24-25; 1Cor 4:5

afar off Ezek 38:10-11, Ezek 38:17


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compassest or, winnowest, Job 13:26-27, Job 14:16-17, Job 31:4; Matt 3:12

my path Ps 139:18, Ps 121:3-8; Gen 28:10-17; 2Sam 8:14, 2Sam 11:2-5, 2Sam 11:27

and art acquainted 2Sam 12:9-12; Prov 5:20-21; Eccl 12:14; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:24; John 6:70-71, John 13:2, John 13:21; Acts 5:3-4


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there is not Ps 19:14; Job 8:2, Job 38:2, Job 42:3, Job 42:6-8; Zeph 1:12; Mal 3:13-16; Matt 12:35-37; Jas 1:26, Jas 3:2-10

thou knowest Ps 50:19-21; Jer 29:23; Heb 4:12-13


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beset me Deut 33:27; Job 23:8-9

and laid Exod 24:11; Rev 1:17


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knowledge Ps 40:5, Ps 13:1; Job 11:7-9, Job 26:14, Job 42:3; Prov 30:2-4; Rom 11:33


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Jer 23:23-24; Jonah 1:3, Jonah 1:10; Acts 5:9


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I ascend Ezek 28:12-17; Amos 9:2-4; Obad 1:4

in hell Job 26:6, Job 34:21-22; Prov 15:11; Jonah 2:2


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If I take Light has been proved, by many experiments, to travel at the astonishing rate of 194,188 miles in one second of time; and comes from the sun to the earth, a distance of 95,513,794 miles in 8 minutes and nearly 12 seconds! But, could I even fly upon the wings or rays of the morning light, which diffuses itself with such velocity over the globe from east to west, instead of being beyond Thy reach, or by this sudden transition be able to escape Thy notice, Thy arm could still at pleasure prevent or arrest my progress, and I should still be encircled with the immensity of Thy essence. The sentiment in this noble passage is remarkably striking and the description truly sublime.

the wings Ps 18:10, Ps 19:6; Mal 4:2

dwell Ps 74:16-17; Isa 24:14-16


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Ps 63:8, Ps 73:23, Ps 143:9-10; Isa 41:13


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Surely Ps 10:11-13, Ps 94:7; Job 22:12-14; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:24

even the night Job 12:22


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the darkness Exod 14:20, Exod 20:21; Job 26:6, Job 34:22; Dan 2:22; Heb 4:13

hideth not Heb. darkeneth not

the darkness etc. Heb. as is the darkness, so is the light


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For thou Job 10:9-12

covered me Ps 22:9-10, Ps 71:6; Job 31:15; Isa 44:2, Isa 46:3; Jer 1:5


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for I am fearfully Gen 1:26-27

marvellous Ps 92:4-5, Ps 104:24, Ps 111:2; Job 5:9; Rev 15:3

right well Heb. greatly


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substance or, strength, or body

when I Ps 139:13; Job 10:9-11; Exod 11:5

in the lowest Ps 63:9; Eph 4:9


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in thy book Ps 56:8; Mal 3:16; Rev 20:12

all my members Heb. all of them

which in continuance were fashioned or, what days they should be fashioned


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precious Ps 40:5; Prov 8:31; Isa 55:8-9; Jer 29:11; Eph 3:9-10

how great Ps 31:19, Ps 36:7


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they are more Ps 40:12

when I awake Ps 139:3, Ps 3:5, Ps 16:8-11, Ps 17:15, Ps 63:6-7; Isa 26:19; Dan 12:2; 1Thess 5:10


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Surely Ps 5:6, Ps 9:17, Ps 55:23, Ps 64:7, Ps 94:23; Isa 11:4

depart from Ps 6:8, Ps 119:115; Matt 7:23, Matt 25:41; 2Cor 6:17


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for they speak Ps 73:8-9, Ps 74:18, Ps 74:22-23; Job 21:14-15; Isa 37:23, Isa 37:28-29; Jude 1:15; Rev 13:6

thine Ps 2:1-3; Exod 20:7


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Do not I Ps 15:4, Ps 31:6; 2Chr 19:2; Rev 2:2, Rev 2:6

and am not Ps 119:136, Ps 119:158; Jer 13:17; Mark 3:5; Luke 19:41; Rom 9:1-3


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hate them Ps 101:3-8; Luke 14:26


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Search me Ps 139:1, Ps 26:2

know Deut 8:2, Deut 8:16; Job 31:6; Prov 17:3; Zech 13:9; Mal 3:2-3; 1Pet 1:7


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And see Ps 7:3-4, Ps 17:3; Prov 28:26; Jer 17:9-10

wicked way Heb. way of pain, or grief, Heb 12:15-16

and lead Ps 5:8, Ps 25:8-9, Ps 119:1, Ps 119:32, Ps 143:8, Ps 143:10

the way Matt 7:14; John 14:6; Col 2:6


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