Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. He invokes in adoration Jehovah the all knowing God, and he proceeds to adore him by proclaiming one of his peculiar attributes. If we would praise God aright we must draw the matter of our praise from himself—"O Jehovah, thou hast." No pretended god knows aught of us; but the true God, Jehovah, understands us, and...
When I acknowledge that God has searched me and known me, I am not merely assenting to doctrine, I am speaking to Him, and such sincerity before His face cuts deeper than any sermon or dispute. The business is not that He knows all things universally, but that He knows me; my soul, my sin, my good, belonging to Him alone.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 139:1-6
In this Aramaizing Psalm what the preceding Psalm says in Psa 139:6 comes to be carried into effect, viz.: for Jahve is exalted and He seeth the lowly, and the proud He knoweth from afar. This Psalm has manifold points of contact with its predecessor.