Psalms 139:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י אֵ֣ין מִ֭לָּה בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֑י הֵ֥ן יְ֝הוָ֗ה יָדַ֥עְתָּ כֻלָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

For ʾēyn millâ in-ləšônî; behold, YHWH yādaʿtâ kullâh

Grammar Details

• *ʾēyn*: particle of negation - there is not
• *millâ*: noun, feminine singular - word
• *ləšônî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix + preposition beth - in my tongue
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD/Yahweh
• *yādaʿtâ*: verb, Qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you know
• *kullâh*: noun + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - all of it

Word Meanings

• *ʾēyn*: there is not/there exists not
• *millâ*: word/speech/utterance
• *ləšônî*: my tongue/my language/my speech
• *yādaʿtâ*: know/understand/perceive
• *kullâh*: all of it/entirety of it/the whole of it

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Before a word is on my tongue, You, LORD, know it completely.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For there is not a word{H4405} in my tongue,{H3956} But, lo, O Jehovah,{H3068} thou knowest{H3045} it altogether.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For there is not a word{H4405} in my tongue{H3956}, but, lo, O LORD{H3068}, thou knowest{H3045}{(H8804)} it altogether.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou hast fashioned me behinde & before, & layed thine hode vpon me.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For there is not a word in my tongue: but beholde thou O Lorde knowest it altogether.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

  For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 50:19-21 : 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
• Job 8:2 : 2 How long will you speak these things, and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
• Job 42:3 : 3 Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
• Job 42:6-8 : 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 7 And it was so, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. 8 Therefore take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your foolishness, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
• Ps 19:14 : 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.
• Jer 29:23 : 23 Because they have done outrageous things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.
• Zeph 1:12 : 12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency: that say in their heart, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will He do evil.'
• Mal 3:13-16 : 13 Your words have been harsh against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'. 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?'. 15 And now we call the proud blessed; yes, those who do wickedness are raised up; yes, those who test God go free. 16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD listened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those who feared the LORD and thought upon his name.
• Matt 12:35-37 : 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account for in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
• Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
• Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
• Jas 3:2-9 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in horses' mouths so that they may obey us; and we turn their whole body. 4 Look also at the ships, which, though they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned with a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the likeness of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
• Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?