Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!
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,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts.
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
Images Psalm 139:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
22 I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies! 23 Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns! 24 See if there is any idolatrous tendency in me, and lead me in the reliable ancient path!
Phrases
Cross References
Job 31:6
let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.
Psalm 26:2
Examine me, O Lord, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives!
Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the Lord tests hearts.
1 Peter 1:7
Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold -- gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away -- and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Deuteronomy 8:2
Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Zechariah 13:9
Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"
Malachi 3:2-3
Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire, like a launderer's soap.
Deuteronomy 8:16
fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
Psalm 139:1
For the music director, a psalm of David. O Lord, you examine me and know.
Jeremiah 11:20
So I said to the Lord, "O Lord who rules over all, you are a just judge! You examine people's hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause."