Psalms 139:3

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You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:4 : 4 Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?
  • Prov 5:20-21 : 20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
  • Jer 23:24 : 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.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His 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!”
  • John 6:70-71 : 70 Jesus replied,“Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” 71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)
  • Acts 5:3-4 : 3 But Peter said,“Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land? 4 Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!”
  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
  • Isa 29:15 : 15 Those 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?”
  • Ps 121:3-8 : 3 May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep! 4 Look! Israel’s protector does not sleep or slumber! 5 The LORD is your protector; the LORD is the shade at your right hand. 6 The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night. 7 The LORD will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life. 8 The LORD will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.
  • Ps 139:18 : 18 If 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.
  • Gen 28:10-17 : 10 Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran. 11 He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place 12 and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it 13 and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants. 15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!” 16 Then Jacob woke up and thought,“Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!” 17 He was afraid and said,“What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”
  • 2 Sam 8:14 : 14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s subjects. The LORD protected David wherever he campaigned.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-5 : 2 One 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. 3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said,“Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he went to bed with her.(Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home. 5 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying,“I’m pregnant.”
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why have you shown contempt for the LORD’s decrees by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife to be your own wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’ 11 This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will go to bed with your wives in broad daylight! 12 Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.’”
  • Job 13:26-27 : 26 For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth. 27 And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.
  • Job 14:16-17 : 16 The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin. 17 My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.
  • John 13:2 : 2 The 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.
  • John 13:21 : 21 When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified,“I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me.”

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  • Ps 139:1-2
    2 verses
    90%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O 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.

  • Ps 139:4-18
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    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 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 139:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    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!

  • Job 14:16
    76%

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

  • Jer 12:3
    76%

    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!

  • Isa 37:28
    75%

    28I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

  • Job 13:27
    75%

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

  • Ps 17:3
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 19:27
    75%

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

  • Job 31:4
    74%

    4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

  • Ps 119:168
    74%

    168I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.

  • Ps 56:8
    74%

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

  • Ps 17:5
    73%

    5I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.

  • Job 10:13
    73%

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

  • Job 28:23
    73%

    23God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

  • Ps 18:36
    73%

    36You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

  • Ps 69:5
    72%

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

  • Job 33:11
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    11He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

  • 2 Sam 22:37
    72%

    37You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

  • Prov 3:6
    72%

    6Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.

  • Lam 3:9
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    9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

  • Job 38:20
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    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

  • Ps 77:19
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    19You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.

  • Job 10:6
    72%

    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

  • Ps 31:7
    71%

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

  • Ps 119:105
    71%

    105נ(Nun) Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.

  • Ps 32:7
    71%

    7You are my hiding place; you protect me from distress. You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance.(Selah)

  • Ps 26:3
    71%

    3For I am ever aware of your faithfulness, and your loyalty continually motivates me.

  • Ps 143:8
    71%

    8May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.

  • Ps 119:151
    71%

    151You are near, O LORD, and all your commands are reliable.

  • Ps 73:24
    71%

    24You guide me by your wise advice, and then you will lead me to a position of honor.

  • Ps 119:10
    71%

    10With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!

  • Ps 23:4
    71%

    4Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.