Chapter 139

David

1st, God knows every movement, every thought, every plan of every man. He knows more than we can ever think to know.

2025 - This verse:

4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. [Psa 139:4 ESV]. 

He knows, but surely we cannot, we would not say, that each word is determined by him, that our every word is caused by the will of God.  If we say that, we aren't even able to form a sentence.  Surely that is not what the Bible teaches.

2nd, There is no place to go from God's presence.  He is everywhere.  Even darkness is light to God.

3rd, Contains these verses:

[Psa 139:13-14 ESV] 13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

These verses are often quoted to say that babies in the womb are people, since God knows them already, and I believe that.  But note that it goes beyond that.  This stanza says David was known to God before he was conceived even.  And all of David's life was written before he was formed "in the depths of the earth".  In this sense, Life begins before conception.  Life begins before Genesis 1:1.  If life is defined by God having a plan for our lives, then we all began life before time began.  Some lives were begun to be aborted in the womb.  God already knew this end would come to those many lives.  Saying this doesn't make abortion right, it is still murder.  But these verses are not trying to establish a scientific argument for when life begins.  That isn't what they mean.

4th, An appeal for God to "slay the wicked".  David also says here that he hates those who hate God.  He loathes them.  So either things changed from OT to NT, with the whole love they neighbor as thyself teaching, or there are yet some that it is ok to hate.  Maybe David is making a difference here between those who are strangers to God, who haven't made up their minds about God, and those who openly actively oppose God, or worship gods besides him, and would set themselves to fight against God.  Perhaps we are still to hate this last group?  It needs more study.

2021 - Wow.  Look at these verses from David, a man after God's own heart:

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!

20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. [Psa 139:19-22 ESV]

This is a seriously non-defensive prayer!  NDP.  David wishes God would kill them.  He hates those who hate God.  Complete hatred!  Personal enemies.  This is pretty fierce stuff.  I still cannot Intertwine prayers like this with love your enemies.  I cannot believe it would change.  There is something that makes David's prayer acceptable despite Jesus saying to love your enemies?  Perhaps it is that hating those who hate God is a correct attitude, but hating our personal enemies is not.  This might be a key.  Perhaps I should go back now and review all my tagged NDP verses and see if this holds up.

Last, Search me, find my wrong thoughts, lead me in the way everlasting...

These verses are a fine prayer, one that might be prayed every single day:

[Psa 139:23-24 ESV] 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!