Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine 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 King James verseion
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know 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 Yea, I hate them right sore, even as though they were mine enemies. 23 Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts. 24 Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 31:6
let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.
Psalm 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart.
Proverbs 17:3
Like as silver is tried in the fire and gold in the furnace, even so doth the LORD prove the hearts.
1 Peter 1:7
that your faith, once tried, being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto laud, glory, and honour, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Deuteronomy 8:2
And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.
Zechariah 13:9
And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"
Malachi 3:2-3
Who shall endure in the day of his coming, or who shall stand to behold him? For he is as trying fire, and as the herb that fullers scour withal.
Deuteronomy 8:16
which fed thee in the wilderness with Manna whereof thy fathers knew not, for to humble thee and to prove thee, that he might do thee good at thy latter end.
Psalm 139:1
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} O LORD, thou searchest me out, and knowest me.
Jeremiah 11:20
Therefore I will beseech thee now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous judge, thou that tryest the reins and the hearts: let me see the avenged of them, for unto thee have I committed my cause.