Psalms 139:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:4 : 4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
  • Prov 5:20-21 : 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms? 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
  • John 6:70-71 : 70 Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One? 71 He was talking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. It was he who was to be false to Jesus--one of the twelve.
  • Acts 5:3-4 : 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
  • Isa 29:15 : 15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
  • Ps 121:3-8 : 3 May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you. 4 See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep. 5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. 6 You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night. 7 The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul. 8 The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.
  • Ps 139:18 : 18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
  • Gen 28:10-17 : 10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran. 11 And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place. 12 And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them. 13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping. 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth. 15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you. 16 And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it. 17 And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.
  • 2 Sam 8:14 : 14 And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-5 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house. 5 And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. 11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun. 12 You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
  • Job 13:26-27 : 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked. 17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
  • John 13:2 : 2 So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,
  • John 13:21 : 21 When Jesus had said this he was troubled in spirit, and gave witness, saying, Truly I say to you, that one of you will be false to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:1-2
    2 verses
    90%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

    2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

  • Ps 139:4-18
    15 verses
    85%

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

    5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

    6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

    7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

    9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

    10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

    13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

    14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

    15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

    17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

    18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

  • Ps 142:3
    82%

    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Ps 139:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

    24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

  • Job 14:16
    76%

    16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • Jer 12:3
    76%

    3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

  • Isa 37:28
    75%

    28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Job 13:27
    75%

    27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

  • Ps 17:3
    75%

    3 You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    75%

    27 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

  • Job 31:4
    74%

    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

  • Ps 119:168
    74%

    168 I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.

  • Ps 56:8
    74%

    8 You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

  • Ps 17:5
    73%

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Job 10:13
    73%

    13 But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:

  • Job 28:23
    73%

    23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

  • Ps 18:36
    73%

    36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

  • Ps 69:5
    72%

    5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

  • Job 33:11
    72%

    11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    72%

    37 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.

  • Prov 3:6
    72%

    6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

  • Lam 3:9
    72%

    9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • Job 38:20
    72%

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • Ps 77:19
    72%

    19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • Job 10:6
    72%

    6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • Ps 31:7
    71%

    7 I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

  • Ps 119:105
    71%

    105 <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.

  • Ps 32:7
    71%

    7 You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

  • Ps 26:3
    71%

    3 For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

  • Ps 143:8
    71%

    8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

  • Ps 119:151
    71%

    151 You are near, O Lord; and all your teachings are true.

  • Ps 73:24
    71%

    24 Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

  • Ps 119:10
    71%

    10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

  • Ps 23:4
    71%

    4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.