Psalm 139:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

New Living Translation
You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.

English Standard Version
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Berean Study Bible
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

New American Standard Bible
You know when I sit down and when I get up; You understand my thought from far away.

NASB 1995
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.

NASB 1977
Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou dost understand my thought from afar.

Amplified Bible
You know when I sit down and when I rise up [my entire life, everything I do]; You understand my thought from afar.

Christian Standard Bible
You know when I sit down and when I stand up; you understand my thoughts from far away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You know when I sit down and when I stand up; You understand my thoughts from far away.

Contemporary English Version
You know when I am resting or when I am working, and from heaven you discover my thoughts.

Good News Translation
You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You alone know when I sit down and when I get up. You read my thoughts from far away.

International Standard Version
You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.

NET Bible
You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

New King James Version
You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.

King James 2000 Bible
You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.

New Heart English Bible
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

World English Bible
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

American King James Version
You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.

American Standard Version
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

A Faithful Version
You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts afar off.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

English Revised Version
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thou knowest my downe sitting & myne vprising: thou vnderstandest my thoughtes long before they be.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou knowest my downe syttinge & my vprisynge, thou vnderstodest my thoughtes a farre of.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You have known my sitting down, "" And my rising up, "" You have attended to my thoughts from afar.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You have known my sitting down and my rising up again.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
You know my sitting and my rising; you have understood my reasonings from the high place.

Lamsa Bible
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts from above.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.
















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