You know when I sit down and when I get up; You understand my thought from far away.
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.
- BSB You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
- NKJV You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 9:4Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
- 2 Kgs 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
- Isa 37:28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
- Luke 9:47Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
- Ps 94:11Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
- John 2:24–25But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
- Prov 15:3Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
- Ps 56:8You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?
- Zech 4:10Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
- 2 Kgs 6:12One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
- Gen 16:13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- Ezek 38:10–11Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
- Ezek 38:17Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?
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