Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 139:3
3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
Psalms 139:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
- New International Version (NIV)You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
Context of Psalms 139:3
1O LORD, You have searched me and known me. 2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways. 4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD. 5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
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אָרְחִ֣י וְרִבְעִ֣י זֵרִ֑יתָ וְֽכָל־דְּרָכַ֥י הִסְכַּֽנְתָּה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 139:3
- Job 13:26For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
- Matthew 3:12His 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.”
- Psalms 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
- Psalms 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- Genesis 28:10Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
- 2 Samuel 8:14He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- 2 Samuel 11:2One 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.
- 2 Samuel 12:9Why 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.
- Proverbs 5:20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe 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?”
- Jeremiah 23:24“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.
- John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
- John 13:2The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
Commentaries on Psalms 139:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Thou compassest my path - Margin, “winnowest.” The Hebrew word - זרה zârâh - means properly “to scatter,” to cast loosely about - as the wind does dust; and then, to winnow - to wit, by throwing grain, when it is thrashed, up to the wind: Isaiah 30:24; Jeremiah 4:11; Rth 3:2 . Then it means “to winnow out;” that is, to winnow out all the chaff, and to leave all the grain - to save all that is valuable. So here it means that God, as it were, “sifted”…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6The Lord's all-knowing and all-powerful nature provides comfort to the godly, but it troubles the wicked (Psalm 2:3).Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 3My going about and my lying down You encompassed My way, my lying down, and my dwelling You have encompassed with a wall, for I can do nothing without Your knowledge. You encompassed heb. זרית, an expression of (Exod. 25:24): “a gold crown (זר).” Menachem associated it in this manner (p. 82). Our Sages, however, interpreted it (Nid. 31a, Mid. Ps. 139:3) as referring to the droplet of [semen, transmitted in] sexual intercourse, from whose choicest part the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 139
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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