Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 139:3
3You observe my travels and my rest; 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
1Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2You know when I sit down and when I stand up; you understand my thoughts from far away. You observe my travels and my rest; you are aware of all my ways. 4Before a word is on my tongue, you know all about it, Lord. 5You have encircled me; you have placed your hand on me.
Read all of Psalms 139Psalms 139:3 word by word
אָרְחִ֣י וְרִבְעִ֣י זֵרִ֑יתָ וְֽכָל־דְּרָכַ֥י הִסְכַּֽנְתָּה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 139:3
- Job 13:26For you record bitter accusations against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 14:16For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin.
- Job 31:4Does he not see my ways and number all my steps?
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”
- Psalms 139:18If I counted them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; when I wake up, I am still with you.
- Psalms 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- Genesis 28:10Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.
- 2 Samuel 8:14He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. 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. From the roof he saw a woman bathing — a very beautiful woman.
- 2 Samuel 12:9Why then have you despised the Lord’s command by doing what I consider evil? You struck down Uriah the Hethite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife — you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.
- Proverbs 5:20Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman?
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who go to great lengths to hide their plans from the Lord. They do their works in the dark, and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
- Jeremiah 23:24Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” — the Lord’s declaration. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” — the Lord’s declaration.
- John 6:70Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”
- John 13:2Now when it was time for supper, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray him.
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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