Psalm 139:3 “You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways…”

Psalm 139:3

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“compassest”

Job 31:4 Matthew 3:12 Job 13:26 Job 13:27 Job 14:16 Job 14:17

Job 31:4 · BSB

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

Matthew 3:12 · BSB

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Job 13:26 · BSB

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

Job 13:27 · BSB

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Job 14:16 · BSB

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

Job 14:17 · BSB

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

“my path”

Genesis 28:10–17 Psalm 139:18 Psalm 121:3–8 2 Samuel 11:27 2 Samuel 8:14 2 Samuel 11:2–5

Genesis 28:10–17 · BSB

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Psalm 139:18 · BSB

If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

Psalm 121:3–8 · BSB

He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.

2 Samuel 11:27 · BSB

And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Samuel 8:14 · BSB

He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

2 Samuel 11:2–5 · BSB

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

“and art acquainted”

Jeremiah 23:24 2 Samuel 12:9–12 Ecclesiastes 12:14 Isaiah 29:15 John 13:2 John 13:21

Jeremiah 23:24 · BSB

“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

2 Samuel 12:9–12 · BSB

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 · BSB

For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

Isaiah 29:15 · BSB

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

John 13:2 · BSB

The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.

John 13:21 · BSB

After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”

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

In context

2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

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