Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try 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:

Darby Translation

Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove 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 hated them with completeness of hatred: they were to me for enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: 24 And see if the way of pain is in me, and guide me in the eternal way.

Cross References

Job 31:6

He shall weigh me in balances of justice, and God will know mine integrity.

Psalm 26:2

Prove me, O Jehovah, and try me; refine my reins and my heart

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.

1 Peter 1:7

That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Deuteronomy 8:2

And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not

Zechariah 13:9

And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.

Malachi 3:2-3

And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He giving thee to eat manna in the desert which thy fathers knew not, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee to do thee good in thy lost state:

Psalm 139:1

To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know.

Jeremiah 11:20

O Jehovah of armies, judging justice and trying the reins and the heart, I shall see thy vengeance from them, for to thee I uncovered my cause.

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