Psalm 139 is one of the grandest of all the Psalms, for it brings us face to face with the majesty and power of God. Immediately it exalts God as all-knowing and omnipresent, and clearly shows that all of man's life is in God's hands.

E. J. Young

David here lays down this great doctrine, that the God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of us, and that all the motions and actions both of our inward and of our outward man are naked and open before him.

Matthew Henry

Only repentance and wholehearted faith can produce such a prayer in a child of God.

The Bible Panorama

This is one of the greatest passages in literature about the miracle of human conception and birth.

Warren Wiersbe

In the presence of birth, we don’t calculate – we marvel.

Eugene Peterson

A song of praise for God’s wonderful works in nature and in history.

Henry H. Halley

The Final Davidic Collection. The main body of the Psalter appropriately concludes with a final collection of psalms attributed to David. They begin with praise.

Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart

When we cannot understand ourselves or comprehend our feelings, God invites us to take our internal musings to Him.

Dr. Charles Stanley