Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;

King James Version

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Holman Bible

Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.

International Standard Version

Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.

A Conservative Version

Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts,

American Standard Version

Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;

Amplified


Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart;
Test me and know my anxious thoughts;

Bible in Basic English

O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

Darby Translation

Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;

Julia Smith Translation

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts:

King James 2000

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Modern King James verseion

Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts.

NET Bible

Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

New Heart English Bible

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

The Emphasized Bible

Search me, O GOD, and observe my heart, Try me, and observe my cares;

Webster

Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:

World English Bible

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

Youngs Literal Translation

Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 139:23

Devotionals containing Psalm 139:23

References

Fausets

Hastings

Images Psalm 139:23

Context Readings

The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God

22 I hate them with the utmost hatred;
They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.


Cross References

Job 31:6

Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O Lord, and try me;
Test my mind and my heart.

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
But the Lord tests hearts.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Deuteronomy 8:2

You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Zechariah 13:9

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Malachi 3:2-3

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

Deuteronomy 8:16

In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end.

Psalm 139:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
Who tries the feelings and the heart,
Let me see Your vengeance on them,
For to You have I committed my cause.

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