“If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;”
If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea. The wings of morning suggest speed and swiftness; taking such wings implies traveling at maximum possible velocity. The farthest limits of the sea represents the geographical extreme of the known world. Even reaching such an extreme through superhuman speed and extending to the earth's farthest reaches would not escape God. This verse employs hyperbolic imagery to emphasize that physical distance is irrelevant to God's omniscience and presence.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:9
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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