Psalms 139:2
Thou — Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
In Context
1To the Overseer. — A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
3My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.
Cross References
Genesis 16:13And she calleth the name of Jehovah who is speaking unto her, 'Thou [art], O God, my beholder;' for she said, 'Even here have I looked behind my beholder?'
2 Kings 6:12And one of his servants saith, 'Nay, my lord, O king, for Elisha the prophet, who [is] in Israel, declareth to the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in the inner part of thy bed-chamber.'
Psalms 44:22Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Psalms 94:11He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
Isaiah 37:28And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.
Ezekiel 38:10Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought,
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 →