Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

New American Standard Bible

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.

King James Version

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Holman Bible

You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
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:

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.

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 139:2

References

Hastings

Images Psalm 139:2

Prayers for Psalm 139:2

Context Readings

The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God

1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. 2 Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar. 3 My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And with all my ways hast been acquainted.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:27

And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

Matthew 9:4

And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, 'Why think ye evil in your hearts?

Psalm 94:11

He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

John 2:24-25

and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all men,

Genesis 16:13

And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, 'Thou art, O God, my beholder;' for she said, 'Even here have I looked behind my beholder?'

2 Kings 6:12

And one of his servants saith, 'Nay, my lord, O king, for Elisha the prophet, who is in Israel, declareth to the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in the inner part of thy bed-chamber.'

Psalm 56:8

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

Proverbs 15:3

In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.

Isaiah 37:28

And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.

Ezekiel 38:10-11

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought,

Ezekiel 38:17

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in former days, By the hand of My servants, prophets of Israel, Who are prophesying in those days -- years, To bring thee in against them?

Zechariah 4:10

For who trampled on the day of small things, They have rejoiced, And seen the tin weight in the hand of Zerubbabel, These seven are the eyes of Jehovah, They are going to and fro in all the land.'

Luke 9:47

and Jesus having seen the reasoning of their heart, having taken hold of a child, set him beside himself,

1 Corinthians 4:5

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

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