Parallel Verses
Webster
Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts 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:
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 chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:27
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Matthew 9:4
And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why think ye evil in your hearts?
Psalm 94:11
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
John 2:24-25
But Jesus did not commit himself to them, because he knew all men.
Genesis 16:13
And she called the name of the LORD that spoke to her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
2 Kings 6:12
And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.
Psalm 56:8
Thou numberest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Isaiah 37:28
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Ezekiel 38:10-11
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
Ezekiel 38:17
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days many years, that I would bring thee against them?
Zechariah 4:10
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Luke 9:47
And Jesus perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord shall come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise from God.