Psalms 139:2

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You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 19:27 : 27 I know where you live, and everything you do.
  • Matt 9:4 : 4 When Jesus perceived their thoughts he said,“Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?
  • Ps 94:11 : 11 The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.
  • John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people. 25 He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.
  • Luke 9:47 : 47 But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, he took a child, had him stand by his side,
  • Zech 4:10 : 10 For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes will joyfully look on the tin tablet in Zerubbabel’s hand.(These are the eyes of the LORD, which constantly range across the whole earth.)
  • Isa 37:28 : 28 I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.
  • Ezek 38:10-11 : 10 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan. 11 You will say,“I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security– all of them living without walls and barred gates–
  • Ps 56:8 : 8 You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
  • Gen 16:13 : 13 So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“Here I have seen one who sees me!”
  • 2 Kgs 6:12 : 12 One of his advisers said,“No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”
  • Ezek 38:17 : 17 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you against them?
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

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  • Ps 139:3-18
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    3You 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.

    6Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

    7Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

    9If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,

    10even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

    17How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total!

    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.

  • Ps 139:1
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    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

  • Ps 139:23-24
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    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

    24See if there is any idolatrous way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!

  • Isa 37:28
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    28I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    76%

    27I know where you live, and everything you do.

  • Jer 12:3
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    3But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!

  • Ps 142:3
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    3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

  • Ps 69:5
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    5O God, you are aware of my foolish sins; my guilt is not hidden from you.

  • Job 14:16
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    16The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

  • Ps 56:8
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    8You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

  • Job 10:13
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    13“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

  • Ps 17:3
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    3You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

  • Job 21:27
    72%

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  • Job 28:23
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    23God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

  • Job 13:27
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    27And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness, because you notice my pain and you are aware of how distressed I am.

  • Ps 51:6
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    19You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

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  • Ps 92:5
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    5How great are your works, O LORD! Your plans are very intricate!

  • 2 Sam 7:20
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    20What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Sovereign LORD!

  • Ps 119:73
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    73י(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.

  • Job 42:2
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    2“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

  • Ps 41:12
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    12As for me, you uphold me because of my integrity; you allow me permanent access to your presence.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6Though the LORD is exalted, he looks after the lowly, and humbles the proud from far away.

  • Ps 38:9
    70%

    9O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

  • Job 31:4
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    4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

  • Lam 3:60
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    60You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

  • Ps 39:4
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    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

  • Jer 15:15
    69%

    15I said,“LORD, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

  • Ps 31:14
    69%

    14But I trust in you, O LORD! I declare,“You are my God!”

  • Ps 26:2
    69%

    2Examine me, O LORD, and test me! Evaluate my inner thoughts and motives!

  • Jer 18:23
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    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!