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You know when I sit down and when I get up;
even from far away you understand my motives.
You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest;[a]
you are aware of everything I do.[b]
Certainly[c] my tongue does not frame a word
without you, O Lord, being thoroughly aware of it.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:3 tn Heb “my traveling and my lying down you measure.” The verb זָרָה (zarah, “to measure”) is probably here a denominative from זֶרֶת (zeret, “a span; a measure”), though some derive it from זָרָה (zarat, “to winnow; to sift”; see BDB 279-80 s.v. זָרָה).
  2. Psalm 139:3 tn Heb “all my ways.”
  3. Psalm 139:4 tn Or “for.”
  4. Psalm 139:4 tn Heb “look, O Lord, you know all of it.”