You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- NKJV You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
- NASB You know when I sit down and when I get up; You understand my thought from far away.
- NLT You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
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Quick answer
God knows David's every movement and discerns his thoughts even from afar.
Overview
God's knowledge extends to the most ordinary actions of sitting and rising and to the inmost thoughts of the heart. Nothing about David is hidden from Him. This complete awareness assures believers that the Lord understands them perfectly, a knowledge made gracious through the One who searches hearts and intercedes for His own.
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- Matt 9:4But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
- 2 Kgs 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Isa 37:28But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Luke 9:47But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
- Ps 94:11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
- John 2:24–25But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.
- Prov 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
- Ps 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?
- Zech 4:10For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
- 2 Kgs 6:12But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
- Gen 16:13So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
- Ezek 38:10–11This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
- Ezek 38:17This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
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