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Psalms 139:3

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— My path and my couch, hast thou examined, and, all my ways, thou well knowest.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And [with] all my ways hast been acquainted.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Thou compassest my path, and my lying downe, and art acquainted [with] all my wayes.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Thou knowest my way and my paths, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Thou compassest 2219
{2219} Prime
זָרַה
zarah
{zaw-raw'}
A primitive root (compare H2114); to toss about; by implication to diffuse, winnow.
z8765
<8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 2121
my path 734
{0734} Prime
אֹרַח
'orach
{o'-rakh}
From H0732; a well trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan.
and my lying down, 7252
{7252} Prime
רֶבַע
reba`
{reh'-bah}
From H7250; prostration (for sleep).
and art acquainted 5532
{5532} Prime
סָכַן
cakan
{saw-kan'}
A primitive root; to be familiar with; by implication to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary.
z8689
<8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 2675
[with] all x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
my ways. 1870
{1870} Prime
דֶּרֶךְ
derek
{deh'-rek}
From H1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbially.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 139:1-24.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 139:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 139:3

Compassest — Thou discernest every step I take. It is a metaphor from soldiers besieging their enemies, and setting watches round about them.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 139:3

Thou (b) compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

(b) So that they are evidently known to you.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
compassest:
or, winnowest,
Job 13:26-27 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. ... Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job 14:16-17 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? ... My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

my path:

Psalms 139:18 [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Psalms 121:3-8 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. ... The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Genesis 28:10-17 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. ... And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is] none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven.
2 Samuel 8:14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel 11:2-5 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon. ... And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I [am] with child.
2 Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

and art acquainted:

2 Samuel 12:9-12 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ... For thou didst [it] secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
Proverbs 5:20-21 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ... For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.
Isaiah 29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
John 6:70-71 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? ... He spake of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him;
John 13:21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
Acts 5:3-4 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land? ... Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 28:10. 2S 8:14; 11:2, 27; 12:9. Jb 13:26; 14:16; 31:4. Ps 121:3; 139:18. Pv 5:20. Ec 12:14. Is 29:15. Jr 23:24. Mt 3:12. Jn 6:70; 13:2, 21. Ac 5:3.

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