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You Have Searched Me and Known Me

Psalms 139:3

In 11 translations

BSB
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
KJV
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.compassest: or, winnowest
WEB
You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
ASV
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
LSV
You have fanned my path and my lying down, || And have been acquainted [with] all my ways.
YLT
My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.
DBY
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;
DRC138:3
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
GNV
Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.
JPS
Thou measurest my going about and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
LXXE138:3
Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.q. d. of rushes, lit. rush.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אָרְחִ֣י וְרִבְעִ֣י זֵרִ֑יתָ וְֽכָל־דְּרָכַ֥י הִסְכַּֽנְתָּה׃
LXX-Br138:3
Τὴν τρίβον μου καὶ τὴν σχοῖνόν μου ἑξιχνίασας· καὶ πάσας τὰς ὁδούς μου προεῖδες,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
  • Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
  • Genesis 28:10–17Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down…
  • Proverbs 5:20–21Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger? For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
  • Psalms 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
  • 2 Samuel 12:9–12Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now,…
  • Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
  • Psalms 121:3–8He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber. Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand. The sun will not…
  • 2 Samuel 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • Acts 5:3–4Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was…
  • Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
  • Job 14:16–17For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin. My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
  • John 6:70–71Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.
  • John 13:2The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
  • John 13:21After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
  • 2 Samuel 11:2–5One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 138:3 in some Bibles
  • Content check: text resembles KJV Ps.139.2 (word overlap 0.38) more than Ps.139.3 (0.13); mapping unverified.
  • 139:3 in most Bibles

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