Psalms 139:1
Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know everything about me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:20“ Yahweh God, what more can I, David, say to you for honoring me? Although you know very well what I am like, Yahweh my God, you have done things for me as though I was the most important man on the earth!
2 Kings 19:27“But I know everything about you. I know when you are in your house and when you go outside; I also know that you are ◄raging/speaking very angrily► against me.
1 Chronicles 28:9“And you, my son Solomon, must know God like I know him, and you must serve him faithfully and because you want to. You must do that because he knows what everyone is thinking and he understands the reasons that people do what they do. If you seek to know him, he will heed your prayers. But if you abandon/reject him, he will abandon/reject you forever.
Psalms 17:3You know what I think, even at night; you have examined what I say and do, and you know that I have determined to never tell any lies.
Psalms 139:23God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!
Jeremiah 17:9Human minds are extremely corrupt/deceitful, and you cannot change that. It is also completely impossible [RHQ] for anyone to understand that.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 139:1
Some of the Jewish doctors are of opinion that this is the most excellent of all the psalms of David; and a very pious devout meditation it is upon the doctrine of God's omniscience, which we should therefore have our hearts fixed upon and filled with in singing this psalm. I. This doctrine is here asserted, and fully laid down, ver. 1-6 . II. It is confirmed by two arguments:—1. God is every where present; therefore he knows all, ver. 7-12 . 2. He made us, therefore he knows us, ver. 13-16 . III. Some inferences… Read the whole commentary →