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Psa. 139:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou γcompassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

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or, winnowest.

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compassest.

or, winnowest.

Job 13:26‑27• ²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. (Job 13:26‑27)

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Job 14:16‑17• ¹⁶For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
¹⁷My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (Job 14:16‑17)

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Job 31:4• ⁴Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? (Job 31:4)

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Matt. 3:12• ¹²Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matt. 3:12)

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Psa. 139:18• ¹⁸If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. (Psa. 139:18)

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Psa. 121:3‑8• ³He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
⁴Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
⁵The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
⁶The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
⁷The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
⁸The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. (Psa. 121:3‑8)

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Gen. 28:10‑17• ¹⁰And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
¹¹And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
¹²And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
¹³And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
¹⁴And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
¹⁵And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
¹⁶And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
¹⁷And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. (Gen. 28:10‑17)

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2 Sam. 8:14• ¹⁴And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went. (2 Sam. 8:14)

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2 Sam. 11:2‑5,27• ²And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
³And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
⁴And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
⁵And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
²⁷And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. (2 Sam. 11:2‑5,27)

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2 Sam. 12:9‑12• ⁹Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
¹⁰Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
¹¹Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
¹²For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. (2 Sam. 12:9‑12)

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Prov. 5:20‑21• ²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. (Prov. 5:20‑21)

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Eccl. 12:14• ¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Eccl. 12:14)

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Isa. 29:15• ¹⁵Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? (Isa. 29:15)

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Jer. 23:24• ²⁴Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. (Jer. 23:24)

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John 6:70‑71• ⁷⁰Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
⁷¹He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. (John 6:70‑71)

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John 13:2,21• ²And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
²¹When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. (John 13:2,21)

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Acts 5:3‑4• ³But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
⁴Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. (Acts 5:3‑4)

• All is under His eye and He actually sees everything. It is not only He sees, but He searches. He is there with us, however offended, in all our ways. This produces uneasiness. Adam innocent could not have thought of it. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 139-143” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou searchest outa my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "siftest."