Psalms 139:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

KJV

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

WEB

For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

ASV

For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

LSV

For there is not a word in my tongue, || Behold, O YHWH, You have known it all!

YLT

For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

DBY

For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

DRC138:4

And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.

GNV

For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

JPS

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, Thou knowest it altogether.

LXXE138:4

For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

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WLC

כִּ֤י אֵ֣ין מִ֭לָּה בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֑י הֵ֥ן יְ֝הוָ֗ה יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃

LXX-Br138:4

ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι λόγος ἄδικος ἐν γλώσσῃ μου· ἰδοὺ Κύριε, σὺ ἔγνως πάντα

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• Hebrews 4:12–13For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Nothing in all creation…
• Psalms 19:14May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
• Psalms 50:19–21You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you.…
• Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
• Matthew 12:35–37The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure. But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every…
• Job 42:6–8Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.” After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not…
• Malachi 3:13–16“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully…
• Jeremiah 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares…
• James 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
• Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
• James 3:2–10We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole body. When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can guide the whole…
• Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
• Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

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