Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 139:8

The glory of heaven and the terror of hell: "Thou."

Verses 9-10.

1. The greatest security and encouragement to a sinner supposed. a) The place —the remotest part of the sea; by which you are to understand the most obscure nook in the creation. b) His swift and speedy flight after the commission of sin, to this supposed refuge and sanctuary: "If I take the wings of the morning."

2. This supposed security and encouragement is utterly destroyed (Ps 139:10). —See Flavel's "Seaman's Preservative in Foreign Countries."

Verses 11-12. Darkness and light are both alike to God.

1. Naturally. "I form the light, and I create the darkness."

2. Providentially. Providential dispensations that are dark to us are light to him. We change with respect to him, not he to us.

3. Spiritually. "Let him that walketh in darkness", etc. "Yea, though I walk", etc. He went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide them by day, and a pillar of fire to guide them by night. It was the same God in the day cloud and in the night light. —G.R.