Salmos 139:10-20

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.

13 Pois tu formaste os meus rins; entreteceste-me no ventre de minha mãe.

14 Eu te louvarei, porque de um modo tão admirável e maravilhoso fui formado; maravilhosas são as tuas obras, e a minha alma o sabe muito bem.

15 Os meus ossos não te foram encobertos, quando no oculto fui formado, e esmeradamente tecido nas profundezas da terra.

16 Os teus olhos viram a minha substância ainda informe, e no teu livro foram escritos os dias, sim, todos os dias que foram ordenados para mim, quando ainda não havia nem um deles.

17 E quão preciosos me são, ó Deus, os teus pensamentos! Quão grande é a soma deles!

18 Se eu os contasse, seriam mais numerosos do que a areia; quando acordo ainda estou contigo.

19 Oxalá que matasses o perverso, ó Deus, e que os homens sanguinários se apartassem de mim,

20 homens que se rebelam contra ti, e contra ti se levantam para o mal.

Salmos 139:10-20 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.