Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

New American Standard Bible

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

King James Version

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Holman Bible

You observe my travels and my rest;
You are aware of all my ways.

International Standard Version

You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways.

A Conservative Version

Thou search out my path and my laying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

American Standard Version

Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.

Amplified


You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

Darby Translation

Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;

Julia Smith Translation

Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways.

King James 2000

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You search out my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Modern King James verseion

You search my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways.

NET Bible

You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

New Heart English Bible

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

The Emphasized Bible

My path and my couch, hast thou examined, and, all my ways, thou well knowest.

Webster

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

World English Bible

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Youngs Literal Translation

My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And with all my ways hast been acquainted.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 139:3

References

Hastings

Context Readings

The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God

2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away. 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

Cross References

Job 31:4

Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

Genesis 28:10-17

So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.

2 Samuel 8:14

And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.

2 Samuel 11:2-5

Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 11:27

And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

2 Samuel 12:9-12

Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Job 13:26-27

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

Job 14:16-17

For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

Psalm 139:18

If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

Proverbs 5:20-21

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

Ecclesiastes 12:14

God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

Isaiah 29:15

Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

Jeremiah 23:24

In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

Matthew 3:12

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

John 6:70-71

Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?

John 13:2

So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

John 13:21

When Jesus had said this he was troubled in spirit, and gave witness, saying, Truly I say to you, that one of you will be false to me.

Acts 5:3-4

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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