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Psalm 139:3 KJV
Psalms · chapter 139 · verse 3
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.Psalm 139:3 · King James Version
Psalm 139:3 in context
1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
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Key words (Strong's)
- compassestzârâhto toss aboutH2219 →
- acquaintedçâkanto be familiar withH5532 →
- pathʼôracha well-trodden roadH734 →
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David here lays down this great doctrine, That the God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of us, and that all the motions and actions both of our inward and of our outward man are naked and open before him. I. He lays down this doctrine in the way of an address to God;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6