Psalms 139:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 139:1

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

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme.

WEB

O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

YLT

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.

DBT

Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

56 verses on the floor

Hebrews 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.
Jeremiah 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.
Jeremiah 17:9–10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Psalms 44:21
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The reference would then be very appropriately to the fact that the most distant objects are contemplated as near by God. Some for afar off read beforehand, in which signification the Hebrew word is elsewhere taken, as if he had said -- O Lord, every thought which I conceive in my heart is already known to thee beforehand.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Thematic Proposed Genesis 16:13
El Roi ('the God who sees me'), the only divine name given by a woman and a foreigner, anticipates 'you have searched me and known me.' INTERPRETIVE trailhead.
Wikipedia 'El Roi'; Bible.org Lesson 34; text Ps 139

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Words1

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H271327× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 139:1HEB 4:13 ECC 12:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 139:1HEB 4:13 1CO 4:5
PSA 139:1HEB 4:13 JER 17:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 139:1HEB 4:13 PSA 33:13-15
PSA 139:1HEB 4:13 PRO 15:3
PSA 139:1PSA 17:3 JOB 23:10
PSA 139:1PSA 17:3 ACT 11:23
PSA 139:1PSA 17:3 PSA 26:2

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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