?EXPOSITION Verse 16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect. While as yet the vessel was upon the wheel the Potter saw it all. The Lord...
?EXPOSITION Verse 9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. If I could fly with all swiftness, and find a ha...
?EXPOSITION Verse 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. I cannot grasp it. I can hardly endure to think of it. The theme overwhelms me. I am amaz...
Body [N]Old Testament. The doctrine of creation sets forth the essential corporeality of human existence. When God created Adam and Eve, he provided t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. Here omnipresence is the theme, -- a truth to which omniscience naturally leads up. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Not that...
?EXPOSITION Verse 17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! He is not alarmed at the fact that God knows all about him; on the contrary, ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. This figure shows the thoughts of God to be altogether innumerabl...
?EXPOSITION Verse 20. For they speak against thee wickedly. Why should I bear their company when their talk sickens me? They vent their treasons and b...
?EXPOSITION Verse 21. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? He was a good hater, for he hated only those who hated good. Of this hatred he is no...
Temptation, Test While the number of terms denoting temptation and testing is small, their range of meaning is wide, extending from a secular sens...
Know, Knowledge The Old Testament. The Hebrew root yada [[;dy],translated know/knowledge, appears almost 950 times in the HebrewBible. It has a wider...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. My substance was not hid from thee. The substantial part of my being was before thine all seeing eye; the bones which make my fr...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising. Me thou knowest, and all that comes of me. I am observed when I quietly sit down, ...
PSALM 139 OVERVIEW One of the most notable of the sacred hymns. It sings the omniscience and omnipresence of God, inferring from these the overthrow ...
PSALM 140 OVERVIEW. This Psalm is in its proper place, and so fitly follows 139 that you might almost read right on, and make no break between the tw...
Poetry [N] [E]Introduction. The significance of studying biblical poetry lies largely in the amount of the Bible that is penned in poetic style. No do...
Life [N] [E]God (Yahweh) as the Source and Sustainer of Life. According to Genesis 2:7, the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and br...
Death, Mortality Death is the absence or withdrawal of breath and the life force that makes movement, metabolism, and interrelation with others possib...
?EXPOSITION Verse 14. I will praise thee: a good resolve, and one which he was even now carrying out. Those who are praising God are the very men who ...