Psalms 139

Verse 1

WEB For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

KJV To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.

TSK thou hast: ps 139:23, ps 11:4,5, ps 17:3, ps 44:21, 1ki 8:39, 1ch 28:9, jer 12:3, jer 17:9,10, joh 21:17, heb 4:13, re 2:18,23

Verse 2

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

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

TSK knowest: ps 56:8, ge 16:13, 2ki 6:12, 2ki 19:27, pr 15:3, isa 37:28, zec 4:10; understandest: ps 94:11, mt 9:4, lu 9:47, joh 2:24,25, 1co 4:5; afar off: eze 38:10,11,17

Verse 3

WEB You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

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

TSK compassest: job 13:26,27, job 14:16,17, job 31:4, mt 3:12; my path: ps 139:18, ps 121:3-8, ge 28:10-17, 2sa 8:14, 2sa 11:2-5,27; and art acquainted: 2sa 12:9-12, pr 5:20,21, ec 12:14, isa 29:15, jer 23:24, joh 6:70,71, joh 13:2,21, ac 5:3,4

Verse 4

WEB For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

KJV For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

TSK there is not: ps 19:14, job 8:2, job 38:2, job 42:3,6-8, zep 1:12, mal 3:13-16, mt 12:35-37, jas 1:26, jas 3:2-10; thou knowest: ps 50:19-21, jer 29:23, heb 4:12,13

Verse 5

WEB You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

KJV Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

TSK beset me: de 33:27, job 23:8,9; and laid: ex 24:11, re 1:17

Verse 6

WEB This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

KJV Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

TSK knowledge: ps 40:5, ps 13:1, job 11:7-9, job 26:14, job 42:3, pr 30:2-4, ro 11:33

Verse 7

WEB Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

KJV Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

TSK Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?: jer 23:23,24, jon 1:3,10, ac 5:9

Verse 8

WEB If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

KJV If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

TSK I ascend: eze 28:12-17, am 9:2-4, ob 1:4; in hell: job 26:6, job 34:21,22, pr 15:11, jon 2:2

Verse 9

WEB If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

KJV If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

TSK the wings: ps 18:10, ps 19:6, mal 4:2; dwell: ps 74:16,17, isa 24:14-16

Verse 10

WEB Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

KJV Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

TSK Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.: ps 63:8, ps 73:23, ps 143:9,10, isa 41:13

Verse 11

WEB If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;”

KJV If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

TSK Surely: ps 10:11-13, ps 94:7, job 22:12-14, isa 29:15, jer 23:24; even the night: job 12:22

Verse 12

WEB even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

KJV Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

TSK the darkness: ex 14:20, ex 20:21, job 26:6, job 34:22, da 2:22, heb 4:13

Verse 13

WEB For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

KJV For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

TSK For thou: job 10:9-12; covered me: ps 22:9,10, ps 71:6, job 31:15, isa 44:2, isa 46:3, jer 1:5

Verse 14

WEB I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

KJV I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

TSK for I am fearfully: ge 1:26,27; marvellous: ps 92:4,5, ps 104:24, ps 111:2, job 5:9, re 15:3

Verse 15

WEB My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

KJV My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

TSK when I: ps 139:13, job 10:9-11, ex 11:5; in the lowest: ps 63:9, eph 4:9

Verse 16

WEB Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

KJV Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

TSK in thy book: ps 56:8, mal 3:16, re 20:12

Verse 17

WEB How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

KJV How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

TSK precious: ps 40:5, pr 8:31, isa 55:8,9, jer 29:11, eph 3:9,10; how great: ps 31:19, ps 36:7

Verse 18

WEB If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

KJV If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

TSK they are more: ps 40:12; when I awake: ps 139:3, ps 3:5, ps 16:8-11, ps 17:15, ps 63:6,7, isa 26:19, da 12:2, 1th 5:10

Verse 19

WEB If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

KJV Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

TSK Surely: ps 5:6, ps 9:17, ps 55:23, ps 64:7, ps 94:23, isa 11:4; depart from: ps 6:8, ps 119:115, mt 7:23, mt 25:41, 2co 6:17

Verse 20

WEB For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

KJV For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

TSK for they speak: ps 73:8,9, ps 74:18,22,23, job 21:14,15, isa 37:23,28,29, jude 1:15, re 13:6; thine: ps 2:1-3, ex 20:7

Verse 21

WEB Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

KJV Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

TSK Do not I: ps 15:4, ps 31:6, 2ch 19:2, re 2:2,6; and am not: ps 119:136,158, jer 13:17, mr 3:5, lu 19:41, ro 9:1-3

Verse 22

WEB I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

KJV I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

TSK hate them: ps 101:3-8, lu 14:26

Verse 23

WEB Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

KJV Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

TSK Search me: ps 139:1, ps 26:2; know: de 8:2,16, job 31:6, pr 17:3, zec 13:9, mal 3:2,3, 1pe 1:7

Verse 24

WEB See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

KJV And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

TSK And see: ps 7:3,4, ps 17:3, pr 28:26, jer 17:9,10; wicked way: heb 12:15,16; and lead: ps 5:8, ps 25:8,9, ps 119:1,32, ps 143:8,10; the way: mt 7:14, joh 14:6, col 2:6