And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
And see if there be any wicked way in me. See whether there be in my heart, or in my life, any evil habit unknown to myself. If there be such an evil way, take me from it, take it from me.
David refuses the hiding places where men cloak themselves in lies. He fixes on a truth that strips all pretense bare: nothing escapes God's sight, not because He watches from afar, but because He shaped us bone by bone in darkness and cannot be ignorant of what He has made.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:1-24
The poet turns the Psalm's opening confession of God's omniscience into a prayer: search me, lay bare the true state of my soul, and see whether any way of pain and torture, the way that leads inward to spiritual ruin, clings to me. Guide me instead in the everlasting way, the way of God that stands fast forever and shall not perish.
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Commenting on Psalm 139:23-24