Psalms 139 · Verse 23

Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Psalms 139:23, King James Version

Psalms 139:23 in other translations

BSBSearch me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
WEBSearch me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
ASVSearch me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
YLTSearch me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
DARBYSearch me, OGod, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
BBEO God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
WebsterSearch me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:

What does Psalms 139:23 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 23 Search me, O God - Investigate my conduct, examine my heart, put me to the test, and entwine my thoughts.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 139:17-24

God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him. It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all the day long, if, when we wake in the morning, our first thoughts were of him: and how shall we admire and bless our God for his precious salvation, when we awake in the world of glory! Surely we ought not to use our members…

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Psalms 139:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

חָקְרֵ֣נִיcha.ke.Re.niexamine meH2713
אֵ֭ל'elO GodH410
וְדַ֣עve.Da'and knowH3045
לְבָבִ֑יle.va.Viheart myH3824
בְּ֝חָנֵ֗נִיbe.cha.Ne.nitest meH974
וְדַ֣עve.Da'and knowH3045
שַׂרְעַפָּֽי\׃sar.'a.Paidisquieting thoughts myH8312

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 139:23

  • Psalms 26:2

    Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

  • Job 31:6

    Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

  • 1 Peter 1:7

    That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

  • Proverbs 17:3

    The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

  • Deuteronomy 8:2

    And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

  • Psalms 139:1

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

  • Zechariah 13:9

    And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

  • Jeremiah 11:20

    But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • Malachi 3:2-3

    But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

  • Deuteronomy 8:16

    Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Search me.
1; 26:2
know.
De 8:2,16; Job 31:6; Pr 17:3; Zec 13:9; Mal 3:2,3; 1Pe 1:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 139:22

    I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • Psalms 139:23

    Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

  • Psalms 139:24

    And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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Psalms 139:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Examíname, oh Dios, y conoce mi corazón: pruébame y reconoce mis pensamientos:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Sonde-moi, ô ✶Dieu! et connais mon cœur; éprouve-moi, et connais mes pensées.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Erforsche mich, Gott, und erkenne mein Herz; prüfe mich und erkenne meine Gedanken!