New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 139:3
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 get up; You understand my thought from far away. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. 4Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, Lord, You know it all. 5You have encircled me behind and in front, And placed 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 write bitter things against me And make me inherit the guilty deeds of my youth.
- Job 14:16For now You number my steps, You do not observe my sin.
- Job 31:4Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Psalms 139:18Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
- Psalms 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; He who watches over you will not slumber.
- Genesis 28:10Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
- 2 Samuel 8:14He also put garrisons in Edom. In all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord helped David wherever he went.
- 2 Samuel 11:2Now at evening time David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.
- 2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the word of the Lord, by doing evil in His sight? You have struck and killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, you have taken his wife as your wife, and you have slaughtered him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
- Proverbs 5:20For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the Lord, And whose deeds are done in a dark place, And they say, “Who sees us?” or “Who knows us?”
- Jeremiah 23:24Can a person hide himself in hiding places So that I do not see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.
- John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
- John 13:2And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, 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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