Psalms 139:2

Thou compassest my path and my lying down,.... The Targum adds,

"to study in the law.''

His walk in the daytime, and every step he took, and his lying down at night. It denotes his perfect…

Thou knowest my downsitting ... - In the various circumstances of life, thou knowest me. Thou knowest me in one place as well as in another. I cannot so change my position that thou will not see me,…

David here lays down this great doctrine, That the God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of us, and that all the motions and actions both of our inward and of our outward man are naked…

Thou knowest Thouis emphatic. It is God alone Who possesses this absolute knowledge of His creatures.

my downsitting and mine uprising My whole life, at rest or in activity. Cp. Psa 127:2; Deu…