SEV Biblia, Chapter 139:18
Si los cuento, se multiplican más que la arena; despierto, y aún estoy contigo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 138:18
Verse 18. If I should count them ] I should be glad to enumerate so many interesting particulars: but they are beyond calculation. When I awake ] Thou art my Governor and Protector night and day.
I am still with thee. ] All my steps in life are ordered by thee: I cannot go out of thy presence; I am ever under the influence of thy Spirit.
The subject, from the 14th verse to the 16th inclusive, might have been much more particularly illustrated, but we are taught, by the peculiar delicacy of expression in the Sacred Writings, to avoid, as in this case, the entering too minutely into anatomical details. I would, however, make an additional observation on the subject in the 15th and 16th verses. I have already remarked the elegant allusion to embroidery, in the word ytmqr rukkamti, in the astonishing texture of the human body; all of which is said to be done in secret, rtsb bassether, in the secret place, viz., the womb of the mother, which, in the conclusion of the verse, is by a delicate choice of expression termed the lower parts of the earth.
The embryo state, µlg golem, has a more forcible meaning than our word substance amounts to. µlg galam signifies to roll or wrap up together; and expresses the state of the fetus before the constituent members were developed. The best system of modern philosophy allows that to semine masculino all the members of the future animal are contained; and that these become slowly developed or unfolded, in the case of fowls, by incubation; and in the case of the more perfect animals, by gestation in the maternal matrix. It is no wonder that, in considering these, the psalmist should cry out, How precious, or extraordinary, are thy thoughts! how great is the sum- heads or outlines, of them! The particulars are, indeed, beyond comprehension; even the heads-the general contents, of thy works; while I endeavour to form any tolerable notion of them, prevail over me-they confound my understanding, and are vastly too multitudinous for my comprehension.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-24 - God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all the day long, if when we wake in the morning, our first thoughts were of him: and ho shall we admire and bless our God for his precious salvation, when we awake in the world of glory! Surely we ought not to use our members an senses, which are so curiously fashioned, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. But our immortal and rational souls are still more noble work and gift of God. Yet if it were not for his precious thoughts of love to us, our reason and our living for eve would, through our sins, prove the occasion of our eternal misery. Ho should we then delight to meditate on God's love to sinners in Jesu Christ, the sum of which exceeds all reckoning! Sin is hated, an sinners lamented, by all who fear the Lord. Yet while we shun them we should pray for them; with God their conversion and salvation ar possible. As the Lord knows us thoroughly, and we are strangers to ourselves, we should earnestly desire and pray to be searched an proved by his word and Spirit. if there be any wicked way in me, let m see it; and do thou root it out of me. The way of godliness is pleasin to God, and profitable to us; and will end in everlasting life. It is the good old way. All the saints desire to be kept and led in this way that they may not miss it, turn out of it, or tire in it __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אספרם 5608 מחול 2344 ירבון 7235 הקיצתי 6974 ועודי 5750 עמך׃ 5973
