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Psalms 139:1

O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

KJV

In finem. Psalmus David.

Vulgate

Εἰς τὸ τέλος· τῷ Δαυεὶδ ψαλμός.

LXX

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme.

ASV

לַ֭/מְנַצֵּחַ לְ/דָוִ֣ד מִזְמ֑וֹר יְהוָ֥ה חֲ֝קַרְתַּ֗/נִי וַ/תֵּדָֽע

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דָּוִ֔ד
dvd
proper_noun · 1067×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
מְנַצֵּ֥חַ
mntsch
verb · 65×
מִזְמ֥וֹר
mzmvr
noun · 57×
נֶחְקַ֖ר
nchqr
verb · 27×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. David meditates on the omniscience and omnipresence of God. There is no place where God is not present, no thought which he does not know. The description of being fearfully and wonderfully made in the womb is a powerful testimony to God as Creator of each person. This knowledge is both comforting to the godly and terrifying to the w…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
  • 1Cor 8:3 — But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
  • 1John 3:20 — For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
  • 1Kgs 8:39 — Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the childr
  • 1Thess 2:4 — But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
  • 2Chr 32:31 — Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in
  • 2Kgs 6:12 — And one of his servants said, None, 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.
  • 2Sam 7:20 — And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
  • 2Sam 12:9 — 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 th
  • Gen 3:8 — And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
  • Gen 16:13 — And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
  • Gen 18:21 — I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
  • Heb 4:13 — Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Isa 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?
  • Isa 37:28 — But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
  • Jer 12:3 — But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Jer 12:3 — But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Jer 17:9 — The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Jer 17:10 — I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Jer 23:23 — Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
  • Job 10:7 — Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
  • Job 10:14 — If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
  • Job 14:16 — For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
  • Job 23:10 — But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
  • Job 31:4 — Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
  • Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
  • John 1:48 — Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
  • John 21:17 — He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; t
  • Luke 16:15 — And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • Luke 19:5 — And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
  • Matt 6:4 — That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
  • Obad 1:6 — How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
  • Prov 5:21 — For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
  • Ps 1:6 — For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
  • Ps 7:9 — Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
  • Ps 11:4 — The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
  • Ps 11:5 — The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
  • Ps 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • Ps 44:21 — Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.