You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- NKJV You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
- NASB You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
- NLT You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
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Quick answer
God observes all of David's paths and is intimately familiar with everything he does.
Overview
Whether David travels or rests, God is acquainted with all his ways. The Lord's attentive knowledge surrounds every part of his life. Such constant awareness reminds believers that they live always before the eyes of God, who in Christ knows and cares for them in every circumstance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Jer 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
- Gen 28:10–17Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
- Prov 5:20–21Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- Eccl 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- 2 Sam 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Ps 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
- Ps 121:3–8He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- 2 Sam 12:9–12Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
- Job 14:16–17For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- John 6:70–71Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
- Isa 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
- Acts 5:3–4Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
- John 13:2The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
- John 13:21After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
- 2 Sam 11:2–5One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- 2 Sam 8:14He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
- Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Job 13:26–27For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
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