Psalm 139:2
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Verse 2. Thought. In all affliction, in all business, a man's best comfort is this, that all he does and even all he thinks, God knows. In the Septuagint we read dialogiomous, that is, "reasonings." God knows all our inner ratiocination, all the dialogues, all the colloquies of the soul with itself. --Thomas Le Blanc.
Verse 2. Thou understandest my thought. Before men we stand as opaque beehives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us, but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass beehives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands. --Henry Ward Beecher.
Verse 2. Thou understandest my thought afar off.
--Plutarch.
Verse 2. Afar off. This expression is, as in Psalms 138:6 , to be understood as contradicting the delusion ( Job 22:12-14 ) that God's dwelling in heaven prevents him from observing mundane things. --Lange's Commentary.
Verse 2. Afar off. Both in distance, however far off a man may seek to hide his thoughts from God; and in time, for God knows the human thought before man conceives it in his heart, in his eternal prescience. The Egyptians called God the "eye of the world." -- Thomas Le Blanc.
Verse 2-4. Do not fancy that your demeanour, posture, dress, or deportment are not under God's providence. You deceive yourself. Do not think that your thoughts pass free from inspection. The Lord understands them afar off. Think not that your words are dissipated in the air before God can hear. Oh, no! He knows them even when still upon your tongue. Do not think that your ways are so private and concealed that there is none to know or censure them. You mistake. God knows all your ways. --Johann David Frisch, 1731.
HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS
Verse 2-4. The knowledge of God extends,
Verse 2. (first clause). The importance of the commonest acts of life.
Verse 2. (second clause). The serious nature of thoughts. Known to God; seen through, their drift perceived; and attention given to them while as yet in the distance.