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Psalms 139:2

Psalms 139:2 is verse 2 of Psalms chapter 139, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

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King James Version

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

World English Bible

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

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Psalms 139:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 56:8

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

Genesis 16:13

So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

2 Kings 6:12

But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

2 Kings 19:27

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Isaiah 37:28

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Zechariah 4:10

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

Psalms 94:11

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Matthew 9:4

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?

Luke 9:47

But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.

John 2:24

But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.

John 2:25

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

Ezekiel 38:10

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 38:11

You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

Ezekiel 38:17

This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

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