Psalms 139:2
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
BSB
ASV
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
KJV
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising,.... Here the psalmist proceeds to observe the particular circumstances and actions of his life, which were known to God; as his "downsitting", either to take rest, as weary persons do. Schultens (a) explains it of the quiet rest in sleep; this the Lord knew when he betook himself to it, and to whose care he committed himself and family; under whose protection he laid himself down, and on whom he depended for safety, Psa 4:
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising. Me thou knowest, and all that comes of me. I am observed when I quietly sit down, and marked when I resolutely rise up. My most common and casual acts, my most needful and necessary movements, are noted by time, and thou knowest the inward thoughts which regulate them. Whether I sink in lowly self renunciation, or ascend in pride, thou seest the motions of my mind, as well as those of my body.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Matthew 9:4But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
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But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to the man with the withered hand, “Get up and stand among us.” So he got up and stood there.
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and a house divided against a house will fall.
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
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Psalms 94:11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
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Isaiah 37:28But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
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O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
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