Psalms 139:2

In 11 translations

BSB

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

KJV

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

WEB

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

ASV

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

LSV

You have known my sitting down, || And my rising up, || You have attended to my thoughts from afar.

YLT

Thou — Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

DBY

Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

DRC138:2

Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.

GNV

Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

JPS

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.

LXXE138:2

Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.Gr. from afar.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

אַתָּ֣ה יָ֭דַעְתָּ שִׁבְתִּ֣י וְקוּמִ֑י בַּ֥נְתָּה לְ֝רֵעִ֗י מֵרָחֽוֹק׃

LXX-Br138:2

Σὺ ἔγνως τὴν καθέδραν μου, καὶ τὴν ἔγερσίν μου· σὺ συνῆκας τοὺς διαλογισμούς μου ἀπὸ μακρόθεν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Matthew 9:4But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
• 2 Kings 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
• Isaiah 37:28But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
• Luke 9:47But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
• Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
• John 2:24–25But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all. He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.
• Psalms 94:11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
• Zechariah 4:10For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
• Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
• 2 Kings 6:12But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
• Genesis 16:13So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
• 1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise…
• Ezekiel 38:10–11This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people…
• Ezekiel 38:17This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

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