Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts afar off.
New American Standard Bible
You
King James Version
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Holman Bible
You understand my thoughts from far away.
International Standard Version
You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.
A Conservative Version
Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off.
American Standard Version
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Amplified
You know when I sit down and when I rise up [my entire life, everything I do];
You understand my thought from afar.
Bible in Basic English
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
Darby Translation
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
Julia Smith Translation
Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of
King James 2000
You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar.
Modern King James verseion
You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
NET Bible
You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.
New Heart English Bible
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou, hast observed my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou hast given heed to my desire, from afar:
Webster
Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
World English Bible
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
Themes
Divine Knowledge » General reference to
God » Eternal the growth of » Knowledge possessed by
God » Is declared to be » Omniscient
The Heart » God » Understands the thoughts of
Knowledge » Divine Knowledge » General reference to
Knowledge » God's » General reference to
The Providence of God » Is all pervading
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:2
Images Psalm 139:2
Prayers for Psalm 139:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
1 {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me. 2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts afar off. 3 Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:27
I know where thou dwellest, and thy coming out and going in know I too; and how thou settest up thy bristles against me.
Matthew 9:4
And when Jesus saw their thoughts, he said, "Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Psalm 94:11
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are but vain.
John 2:24-25
but Jesus put not himself in their hands, because he knew all men,
Genesis 16:13
And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me."
2 Kings 6:12
And one of his servants said, "Nay, my lord king: Elisha the prophet that is in Israel, he telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy sleeping chamber."
Psalm 56:8
Thou tellest my flittings, thou puttest my tears in thy bottle, and numberest them. Are not these things noted in thy book?
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD look on every place; both upon the good and bad.
Isaiah 37:28
I know thy ways, thy going forth and thy coming home, yea and thy madness against me.
Ezekiel 38:10-11
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: At the same time shall many things come into thy mind, so that thou shalt imagine mischief,
Ezekiel 38:17
Thus sayeth the LORD God: Thou art he, of whom I have spoken afore time by my servants the prophets of Israel; which prophesied, in those days and years, that I should bring thee upon them.
Zechariah 4:10
For he that hath been despised a little season, shall rejoice, when he seeth the tin weight in Zerubbabel's hand. The seven eyes are the LORD's, which go through the whole world.'
Luke 9:47
When Jesus perceived the thoughts of their hearts, he took a child, and set him hard by him,
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.