Salmos 139:2-12

2 Tu conheces o meu sentar e o meu levantar; de longe entendes o meu pensamento.

3 Esquadrinhas o meu andar, e o meu deitar, e conheces todos os meus caminhos.

4 Sem que haja uma palavra na minha língua, eis que, ó Senhor, tudo conheces.

5 Tu me cercaste em volta, e puseste sobre mim a tua mão.

6 Tal conhecimento é maravilhoso demais para mim; elevado é, não o posso atingir.

7 Para onde me irei do teu Espírito, ou para onde fugirei da tua presença?

8 Se subir ao céu, tu aí estás; se fizer no Seol a minha cama, eis que tu ali estás também.

9 Se tomar as asas da alva, se habitar nas extremidades do mar,

10 ainda ali a tua mão me guiará e a tua destra me susterá.

11 Se eu disser: Ocultem-me as trevas; torne-se em noite a luz que me circunda;

12 nem ainda as trevas são escuras para ti, mas a noite resplandece como o dia; as trevas e a luz são para ti a mesma coisa.

Salmos 139:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This psalm was written by David, when he lay under the reproach and calumnies of men, who laid false things to his charge; things he was not conscious of either in the time of Saul's persecution of him, or when his son Absalom rebelled against him: and herein he appeals to the heart searching and rein trying God for his innocence; and, when settled on his throne, delivered it to the master of music, to make use of it on proper occasions. According to the Syriac title of the psalm, the occasion of it was Shimei, the son of Gera, reproaching and cursing him as a bloody man, 2 Samuel 16:5. Theodoret takes it to be a prophecy of Josiah, and supposes that he is represented as speaking throughout the psalm. Aben Ezra observes, that this is the most glorious and excellent psalm in all the book: a very excellent one it is: but whether the most excellent, it is hard to say. It treats of some of the most glorious of the divine perfections; omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. Arama says, the argument of it is God's particular knowledge of men, and his providence over their affairs.