Psalms 139:2
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
In Context
1LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Cross References
Genesis 16:13And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me?
2 Kings 6:12And one of his servants said, Nay, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.
Psalms 44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 94:11The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Isaiah 37:28But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
Ezekiel 38:10Thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 139:2-7
The Omniscience of God. 1 O Lord , thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord , thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. David here lays down this great doctrine,… Read the whole commentary →