“For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.”
Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. God's knowledge extends to human speech before it is uttered; divine omniscience anticipates what humans have not yet consciously formulated. The temporal paradox (before a word is on my tongue) suggests that God's knowledge transcends human sequential consciousness and temporality. The comprehleteness of this foreknowledge emphasizes that nothing about human utterance surprises or remains unknown to God. This verse demonstrates that human thought itself lies within the sphere of God's exhaustive knowledge.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:4
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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