Psalms 94:11
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
KJV
Et isti non cognoverunt vias meas : ut juravi in ira mea : Si introibunt in requiem meam.
Vulgate
ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.
LXX
Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.
ASV
יְֽהוָ֗ה יֹ֭דֵעַ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת אָדָ֑ם כִּי הֵ֥מָּה הָֽבֶל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
הֵ֖מָּה
hmh
pronoun · 560×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת
mchshbvt
noun · 56×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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1Cor 3:20 · paraphrase"And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."Psalm 94: the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise — Paul paraphrases
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
City of God · 3 passages
Chapter 4.—About the Prefigured Change of the Israelitic Kingdom and Priesthood, and About the Things Hannah the Mother of Samuel Prophesied, Personating the Church. Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached the times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection of Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing that thenceforth his descendan…
Chapter 4.—What the Christians Believe Regarding the Supreme Good and Evil, in Opposition to the Philosophers, Who Have Maintained that the Supreme Good is in Themselves. If, then, we be asked what the city of God has to say upon these points, and, in the first place, what its opinion regarding the supreme good and evil is, it will reply that life eternal is the supreme good, d…
Chapter 11.—Against the Platonists, Who Argue from the Physical Weight of the Elements that an Earthly Body Cannot Inhabit Heaven. But against this great gift of God, these reasoners, “whose thoughts the Lord knows that they are vain”16261626 Ps. xciv. 11. bring arguments from the weights of the elements; for they have been taught by their master Plato that the two greatest ele…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
- 1Cor 1:21 — For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
- 1Cor 1:25 — Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
- 1Cor 3:20 — And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
- 1Cor 3:20 — And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
- Job 11:11 — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Job 11:11 — For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
- Ps 49:10 — For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
- Ps 139:2 — Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
- Rom 1:21 — Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.