Psalms 139:4

Updated Bible Version

For there is not a word in my tongue, But, look, O Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Before a word is on my tongue,you know all about it, Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, LORD, you know it altogether.

King James Version
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord , thou knowest it altogether.

English Standard Version
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord , you know it altogether.

New Century Version
Lord , even before I say a word, you already know it.

New English Translation
Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O Lord , being thoroughly aware of it.

Amplified Bible
Even before there is a word on my tongue [still unspoken], Behold, O LORD, You know it all.

New American Standard Bible
Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, LORD, You know it all.

World English Bible
For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
Even before there is a word on my tongue,Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all.

Berean Standard Bible
Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Before I even speak a word, you know what I will say,

Complete Jewish Bible
that before I speak even a word, Adonai , you know all about it already.

Darby Translation
For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , you know what I want to say, even before the words leave my mouth.

George Lamsa Translation
For if there is deception in my tongue, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Good News Translation
Even before I speak, you already know what I will say.

Lexham English Bible
For there is not a word yet on my tongue, but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.

Literal Translation
For not a word is on my tongue, but, lo, O Jehovah, You know it all.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast fashioned me behinde & before, & layed thine hode vpon me.

American Standard Version
For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

Bible in Basic English
For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, Thou knowest it altogether.

King James Version (1611)
For there is not a worde in my tongue: but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For there is not a word in my tongue: but beholde thou O Lorde knowest it altogether.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,

English Revised Version
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou hast bifor seien alle my weies; for no word is in my tunge.

Webster's Bible Translation
For [there is] not a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

New King James Version
For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

New Living Translation
You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord .

New Life Bible
Even before I speak a word, O Lord, You know it all.

New Revised Standard
Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord , you know it completely.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely there hath not been a word on my tongue, but behold! O Yahweh, thou hast observed it on every side.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(138-4) And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.

Revised Standard Version
Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Young's Literal Translation
For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord , You know it all.

Contextual Overview

¹ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O Yahweh, you have searched me, and known [me]. ² You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought far off. ³ You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, But, look, O Yahweh, you know it altogether. ⁵ You have beset me behind and before, And laid your hand on me. ⁶ [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I can't attain to it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there is not: Psalms 19:14, Job 8:2, Job 38:2, Job 42:3, Job 42:6-8, Zephaniah 1:12, Malachi 3:13-16, Matthew 12:35-37, James 1:26, James 3:2-10

thou knowest: Psalms 50:19-21, Jeremiah 29:23, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:3 - Pharaoh Job 37:20 - Shall it Jeremiah 23:25 - heard Malachi 3:16 - and the Acts 5:4 - thou hast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For [there is] not a word in my tongue,.... Expressed by it or upon it, just ready to be spoken; or, as the Targum,

"when there is no word in my tongue:''

so Aben Ezra,

"before it was perfect in my tongue:''

before it is formed there; while it is in the mind, and not expressed, and even before that;

[but], lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether; the whole of it, from whence it springs; the reason of it, what is designed, or the ends to be answered by it. The Lord knows the good words of his people, which they speak to him in prayer, even before and while they are speaking them; and what they say to one another in private conversation,

Isaiah 65:24. See an instance of words known by Christ before spoken, in Luke 19:31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For there is not a word in my tongue - All that I say; all that I have power to say; all that I am disposed at any time to say.

But lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether - All that pertains to it. What is “said,” and what is “meant.” Merely to “hear” what is spoken does not imply necessarily a full knowledge of what is said - for it may be false, insincere, hypocritical. God knows exactly what is said and what is “meant.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 139:4. There is not a word in my tongue — Although (כי ki) there be not a word in my tongue, behold O Jehovah, thou knowest the whole of it, that is, thou knowest all my words before they are uttered, as thou knowest all my thoughts while as yet they are unformed.