Parallel Verses

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:

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,

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 count them mine enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me and know my anxious thoughts;
24 and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.

Cross References

Job 31:6

let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know my integrity.

Psalm 26:2

Examine me, O LORD and prove me; melt my kidneys and my heart.

Proverbs 17:3

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tries the hearts.

1 Peter 1:7

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;

Deuteronomy 8:2

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

Zechariah 13:9

And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.

Malachi 3:2-3

But who may abide the time of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he shall be like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap:

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, a food which thy fathers knew not, afflicting thee and proving thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

Psalm 139:1

O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me.

Jeremiah 11:20

But, O LORD of the hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the kidneys and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them, for unto thee I have uncovered my cause.

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