“Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.”
You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. The continued enumeration expands to include journey (path) and rest (lying down), suggesting total knowledge of both activity and repose. The term search suggests active investigation; God pursues knowledge of the psalmist with intentional attention. Acquainted with all my ways indicates comprehensive familiarity with the full scope of behavior and patterns. This verse emphasizes that nothing is hidden from God; there is no gap between God's knowledge and human reality.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:3
1. ...Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks in the Prophets, sometimes in His own Name, sometimes in ours, because He makes Himself one with us; as it is said, “they two shall be one flesh.” Wherefore also the Lord says in the Gospel, speaking of marriage, “therefore they are no more two, but one flesh.” One flesh, because of our mortality He took flesh; not one divinity, for He is the Creator, we the creature. Whatsoever then our Lord speaks in the person of the Flesh He took upon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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