Psalms 139:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.”
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“You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou--Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 139:2 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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!”
- Deuteronomy 31:21And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
- 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.”
- 2 Kings 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
- Psalms 94:11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
- Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
- Isaiah 37:28But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Ezekiel 11:5And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.
- Ezekiel 38:10This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
- 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?
- 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.”
- Matthew 9:4But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
- Luke 9:47But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
- John 2:24But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.
- 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 from God.
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