Psalms 139:1
LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
In Context
2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:20What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord GOD.
2 Kings 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
1 Chronicles 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Psalms 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
Psalms 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
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 →