Teks -- Psalms 139:2 (NET)

139:2 You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Psa 139:2 - Afar off

Thou knowest what my thoughts will be in such and such circumstances, long before I know it, yea from all eternity.

Clarke: Psa 139:2 - My downsitting and mine uprising

My downsitting and mine uprising - Even these inconsiderable and casual things are under thy continual notice. I cannot so much as take a seat, or leave it, without being marked by thee

Clarke: Psa 139:2 - Thou understandest my thought

Thou understandest my thought - לרעי lerei , "my cogitation."This word is Chaldee, see Dan 2:29, Dan 2:30

Clarke: Psa 139:2 - Afar off

Afar off - While the figment is forming that shall produce them.

Defender: Psa 139:2 - my

This psalm is intensely personal. The first person pronouns ("I," "me," etc.) occur forty-eight times in these twenty-four verses and the second person pronouns ("thou," "thine," etc.) occur twenty-eight times.

Defender: Psa 139:2 - my thought

It is striking to realize that God because of His omnipresence and omniscience knows continually the thoughts of all His creatures."

TSK: Psa 139:2 - knowest // understandest // afar off

knowest : Psa 56:8; Gen 16:13; 2Ki 6:12, 2Ki 19:27; Pro 15:3; Isa 37:28; Zec 4:10

understandest : Psa 94:11; Mat 9:4; Luk 9:47; Joh 2:24, Joh 2:25; 1Co 4:5

afar off : Eze 38:10, Eze 38:11, Eze 38:17

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 139:2 - Known me // My downsitting and mine uprising // My thought // Afar off

Known me i.e. known me exactly, as men do those things which they diligently search out.

My downsitting and mine uprising all my postures and motions, my actions and my cessations from action.

My thought all my secret counsels and designs.

Afar off before they are perfectly formed in my mind. Thou knowest what my thoughts will be in such and such circumstances long before I know it, yea, from all eternity.

Haydock: Psa 139:2 - Man

Man. Saul, (Calmet) Judas, (St. Hilary) or self-love, the old man, who is our most dangerous enemy. (Berthier)

Gill: Psa 139:2 - Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising // thou understandest my thought afar off

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,.... Here the psalmist proceeds to observe the particular circumstances and actions of his life, which were known to God; as his "downsitting", either to take rest, as weary persons do. Schultens ^a explains it of the quiet rest in sleep; this the Lord knew when he betook himself to it, and to whose care he committed himself and family; under whose protection he laid himself down, and on whom he depended for safety, Psa 4:8. Or, since lying down to sleep is afterwards mentioned, this may respect sitting down at table to eat and drink; when the Lord knows whether men use the creatures aright, or abuse them; whether they receive their food with thankfulness, and eat and drink to the glory of God: or else this downsitting was to read the word of God, and meditate upon it; so the Targum paraphrases it,

"my sitting down to study the law.''

When men do this, the Lord knows whether in reading they understand what they read, or read attentively and with affection; whether it is to their comfort and edification, and for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness; whether their meditation on it is sweet, and is attended with profit and pleasure. "Uprising" may respect either rising from bed, when the Lord knows whether the heart is still with him, Psa 139:18; what sense is had of the divine protection and sustentation, and what thankfulness there is for the mercies of the night past; and whether the voice of prayer and praise is directed to him in the morning, as it should be, Psa 3:5; or else rising from the table, when the Lord knows whether a man's table has been his snare, and with what thankfulness he rises from it for the favours he has received. The Targum interprets this of rising up to go to war; which David did, in the name and strength, and by the direction, of the Lord;

thou understandest my thought afar off; God knows not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of men, which none but themselves know; by this Christ appears to be truly God, the omniscient God, being a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, Mat 9:3, Heb 4:12. God knows what thoughts his people have of him, and of his lovingkindness in Christ; what thoughts they have of Christ himself, his person, offices, and grace; what thoughts they have of themselves, their state, and condition: he knows all their vain thoughts, and complains of them, and which also they hate; and all their good thoughts, for they come from him. And he knows them "afar off", or "of old" ^b, even before they are; so Aben Ezra interprets it, a long time past, and compares it with Jer 31:3; where the same word is rendered "of old": God knows the thoughts of his people, as well as his own, from all eternity; see Isa 25:1; as he knew what they would say and do, so what they would think; he knows thoughts that are past long ago, and forgotten by men, or were unobserved when thought; how else should he bring them into judgment? or though he is afar off in the highest heavens, yet he sees into the hearts of men, and is privy to all their thoughts.