Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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:

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 perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts; 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.

Cross References

Job 31:6

(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

Psalm 26:2

Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:

Proverbs 17:3

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.

1 Peter 1:7

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Deuteronomy 8:2

And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Malachi 3:2-3

But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he will be like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' lye.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Psalm 139:1

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Jeremiah 11:20

But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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