New English Translation
Psalms 139:3
3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.
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 examine me and know. 2You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives. You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do. 4Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O Lord, being thoroughly aware of it. 5You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me.
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אָרְחִ֣י וְרִבְעִ֣י זֵרִ֑יתָ וְֽכָל־דְּרָכַ֥י הִסְכַּֽנְתָּה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 139:3
- Job 13:26For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
- Job 14:16“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark 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 clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”
- Psalms 139:18If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.
- Psalms 121:3May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep!
- Genesis 28:10Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.
- 2 Samuel 8:14He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The Lord protected David wherever he campaigned.
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.
- 2 Samuel 12:9Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- Proverbs 5:20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
- Isaiah 29:15Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast, “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”
- Jeremiah 23:24“Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the Lord asks. “Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks.
- John 6:70Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”
- John 13:2The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should 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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