'Know' in the Bible

"Have you ever commanded the morning at any time during your life? Do you know where the dawn lives,

Do you understand the breadth of the earth? Tell me, since you know it all!

Can you take it to its homeland, since you know the path to his house?

You should know! After all, you had been born back then, so the number of your days is great!

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you regulate their authority over the earth?

"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,

"I know that you can do anything and nothing that you plan is impossible.

You asked, "Who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge?' Well now, I have talked about what I don't understand awesome things beyond me that I don't know.

Those who know your name will trust you, for you have not forsaken those who seek you, LORD.

Make them afraid, LORD, Let the nations know that they are only human. Interlude

You cause me to know the path of life; in your presence is joyful abundance, at your right hand there are pleasures forever. A Davidic Prayer.

You rescued me from conflict with the people; you made me head of the nations. People who did not know me will serve me.

Now I know that the LORD has delivered his anointed; he has answered him from his sanctuary with the strength of his right hand of deliverance.

The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop.

Send forth your gracious love to those who know you, and your righteousness to those who are upright in heart.

"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is.

In the great congregation I have proclaimed the righteous good news. Behold, I did not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.

In this way I will know that you are pleased with me, and that my enemies will not shout in triumph over me.

Be in awe and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted throughout the earth.

I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.

Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Go ahead and destroy them in anger! Wipe them out, and they will know to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Interlude

God, you know my sins, and my guilt is not hidden from you.

Truly you know my reproach, shame, and disgrace. All my enemies are known to you.

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.

They neither know nor understand; they walk about in the dark while all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Then they will know that you alone whose name is LORD are the Most High over all the earth. To the Director: On the Gittith. A Psalm by the descendants of Korah.

Who can know the intensity of your anger? Because our fear of you matches your wrath,

A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:

I know, LORD, that your decrees are just, and that you have rightfully humbled me.

May those who fear you turn to me, along with those who know your decrees.

Since I am your servant, give me understanding, so I will know your decrees.

Indeed, I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord surpasses all gods.

You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.

Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!

Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.

I know that the LORD will act on behalf of the tormented, providing justice for the needy.

In the morning let me hear of your gracious love, for in you I trust. Cause me to know the way I should take, because I have set my hope on you.

then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God.

But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness, and they do not know what they are stumbling over.

"I, wisdom, am related to prudence. I know how to be discreet.

Righteous lips know what is prudent, but the words of the wicked are perverse.

The wisdom of the prudent helps him know how to live, but a fool's stupidity deceives him.

Wisdom is at rest in the mind of the discerning even fools know this.

If you say, "Look here, we didn't know about this," doesn't God, who examines motives, discern it? Doesn't the one who guards your soul know about it? Won't he repay each person according to what he has done?

Never brag about the day to come, because you don't know what it might bring.

The righteous person is concerned about the poor; but the wicked don't understand what they need to know.

I never acquired wisdom, but I know what the Holy One knows.

Who has ascended to heaven, and then descended? Who has collected the wind in his hands? Who has wrapped up waters in a garment? Who has established all the farthest points of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!

Whatever exists has been named already; people know what it means to be human and a person cannot defeat one who is more powerful than he.

Indeed, wisdom gives protection, just like money does, but it's better to know that wisdom gives life, to those who have mastered it.

since you also know how often you have cursed others.

Even though a sinner does what is wrong a hundred times and still survives, nevertheless I also know that things will go well for those who fear God, who fear in his presence.

At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.

Apportion what you have into seven, or even eight parts, because you don't know what disaster might befall the land.

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

If you don't know, most beautiful of women, go out after the flock and graze your young goats beside the shepherd's tents.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.

Or when they give the book to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please,' he answers, "I don't know how to read.'"

Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, approached Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and let him know what the field commander had said.

So now, LORD our God, save us from his oppressive hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God."

""I know when you rise up and when you sit down, your comings and goings and how you've become enraged at me.

"You know, don't you? You have heard, haven't you? Hasn't it been told you from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary; and his understanding cannot be fathomed.

And who pursues them and moves on unscathed by a path that his feet don't know?

Let them approach and ask us, "What will happen? As to the former things, what were they? Tell us, so that we may consider them and know. Or the latter things or the things to come let us hear.

Tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods! Yes, do something good or something bad, so we may hear and gaze at it together.'"

Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could ask, "Is it right?' Indeed, no one told of this, no one made an announcement, and no one heard your words:

I'll help the blind walk, even on a road they do not know; I'll guide them in directions they do not know. I'll turn the dark places into light in front of them, and the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I won't abandon them.

"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and trust me and understand that I am the One. Before me no God was formed, nor will there be one after me.

Don't tremble, and don't be afraid. Didn't I tell you and announce it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? There is no other Rock I don't know of any."

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame.

I'll give you concealed treasures and riches hidden in secret places, so that you'll know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.

so that from the sun's rising to the west people may know that there is none besides me. "I am the LORD, and there is no other."

"Gather together and come; draw near and enter, your fugitives from the nations. Those who carry around their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who keep praying to a god that cannot save.

"But disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will not be able to ward off; and devastation will come upon you suddenly, and you won't anticipate it.

"Oh, yes! Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens will be your nursing mothers. They will bow to you with their faces to the ground, and lick the dust from your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.

"I'll make those who mistreat you eat their own flesh, and they will get drunk on their own blood, as with new wine. "Then all mankind will know that I am the LORD your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

"The Lord GOD has given me a learned tongue, so that I may know how to sustain the weary with words. And morning after morning he wakens, and he wakens my ear to listen like those who are being taught.

For the Lord GOD helps me, so I won't be disgraced. Therefore I've made my face like flint, and I know that I won't be put to shame."

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my instruction in their hearts. Don't fear the insults of mortals, and don't be dismayed at their hateful words.

Therefore my people will know my name; in that day they'll know that it is I who speaks, "Here I am!'

"Look! You will call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that does not know you will run to you, because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you."

They seek me day after day, and are eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practices righteousness and has not forsaken the justice of their God. "They ask me to reveal just decisions; they are eager to draw near to God.

The pathway of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their courses. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks in them will know peace."

But you are our Father, even Abraham does not know us and Israel has not acknowledged us; you are he, O LORD, our Father, from long ago, "Our Redeemer' is your name.

"But as for me, I know their actions and their thoughts. Come and gather all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

I replied, "Ah, LORD God! Look, I don't know how to speak, because I'm only a young man."

"The priests didn't say, "Where is the LORD?' and those handling the Law didn't know me. The rulers transgressed against me, the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they followed that which does not profit.

Your wickedness will be punished, and you will be corrected due to your acts of apostasy. Know and see that it's evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God, but the fear of me is not in you," declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

"How can you say, "I'm not defiled. I haven't gone after the Baals.'? Look at what you've done in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift young camel galloping aimlessly;

"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They're stupid children, they have no understanding. They're skilled at doing evil, but how to do good, they don't know."

Then I said, "These are only the poor, they're foolish, for they don't know the LORD's way, the requirement of their God.

Let me go to the leaders and speak to them. For they know the LORD's way, the requirement of their God." "But they, all together, have broken the yoke and torn off the restraints.

People of Israel, I'm now bringing a nation from far away to attack you," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know. And you won't understand what they say.

Were they ashamed because they did what was repugnant to God? They were not ashamed at all they don't even know how to blush! Therefore they'll fall with those who fall. When I punish them, they'll be brought down," says the LORD.