Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Holman Bible
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;
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,
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Devotionals about Psalm 139:23
Devotionals containing Psalm 139:23
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:23
Images Psalm 139:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me. 23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested: 24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 31:6
(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)
Psalm 26:2
Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
Proverbs 17:3
The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Deuteronomy 8:2
And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
Malachi 3:2-3
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
Deuteronomy 8:16
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
Psalm 139:1
O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.