New King James Version
Psalms 139:3
3You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with 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 Living Translation (NLT)You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
Context of Psalms 139:3
1O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. 4For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. 5You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon 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 bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 14:16For now You number my steps, But do not watch over my sin.
- Job 31:4Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
- Matthew 3:12His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Psalms 139:18If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
- Psalms 121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
- Genesis 28:10Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
- 2 Samuel 8:14He also put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
- 2 Samuel 11:2Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold.
- 2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.
- Proverbs 5:20For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
- Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
- Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the Lord, And their works are in the dark; They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”
- Jeremiah 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?” says the Lord; “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.
- John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
- John 13:2And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’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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