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Psalms 139:3

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

KJV

Qui cogitaverunt iniquitates in corde, tota die constituebant prælia.

Vulgate

οἵτινες ἐλογίσαντο ἀδικίας ἐν καρδίᾳ, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν παρετάσσοντο πολέμους·

LXX

Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.

ASV

אָרְחִ֣/י וְ/רִבְעִ֣/י זֵרִ֑יתָ וְֽ/כָל דְּרָכַ֥/י הִסְכַּֽנְתָּה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֹ֣רַח
'rch
noun · 60×
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
drk
noun · 709×
י
y
pronoun · 1×
יִסְכָּן
yskn
verb · 12×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 39×

Historic Christian voices

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

We believe that all things in heaven and on earth, and all creatures, are preserved and governed by the providence of this wise and eternal God. For David testifies, saying: "The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. Who is like the LORD our God?" Indeed, the same apostle to the Athenians testified: "In him we live and move and have our being." This p…

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 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.
  • 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
  • Acts 5:3 — 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?
  • Dan 5:23 — But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and
  • Eccl 12:14 — For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
  • Gen 28:10 — And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
  • Gen 31:12 — And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
  • 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?
  • Jer 16:17 — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
  • Jer 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.
  • Job 14:16 — For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
  • Job 31:4 — Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
  • John 6:70 — Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
  • Prov 5:20 — And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Ps 119:168 — I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
  • Ps 121:3 — He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
  • Ps 139:18 — If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
  • Ps 139:18 — If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.