Psalm 139:2 “You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from a…”

Psalm 139:2

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

World English Bible

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

American Standard Version

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

Darby Translation

Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

Young's Literal Translation

Thou — Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

Bible in Basic English

You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

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Cross references

“knowest”

2 Kings 19:27 Isaiah 37:28 Proverbs 15:3 Psalm 56:8 Zechariah 4:10 Genesis 16:13

2 Kings 19:27 · BSB

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Isaiah 37:28 · BSB

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Proverbs 15:3 · BSB

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Psalm 56:8 · BSB

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

Zechariah 4:10 · BSB

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

Genesis 16:13 · BSB

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me, ” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

“understandest”

Matthew 9:4 Psalm 94:11 Luke 9:47 1 Corinthians 4:5 John 2:24 John 2:25

Matthew 9:4 · BSB

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

Psalm 94:11 · BSB

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Luke 9:47 · BSB

But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.

1 Corinthians 4:5 · BSB

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from…

John 2:24 · BSB

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

John 2:25 · BSB

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

“afar off”

Ezekiel 38:10 Ezekiel 38:11 Ezekiel 38:17

Ezekiel 38:10 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38:11 · BSB

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a quiet people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

Ezekiel 38:17 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

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