Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Holman Bible
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 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,
Topics
Devotionals
Devotionals about Psalm 139:23
Devotionals containing Psalm 139:23
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts, 24 and see if any wicked way is in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 31:6
let me be weighed in an even balance so that God may know my uprightness.
Psalm 26:2
Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; purify my heart and my mind.
Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Jehovah tries the hearts.
1 Peter 1:7
so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through 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 can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end,
Psalm 139:1
To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, You have searched me and have known me.
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Jehovah of Hosts who judges rightly, who tries the heart and the mind, let me see Your vengeance on them. For to You I have revealed my cause.