Psalm 139

This Psalm is loved so much that there are lots of versions of songs with different music but this psalm's words as the lyrics, including a version by me, Rick Livermore. Maybe you have heard me sing it. If not I recorded it here when my four sons were just screaming children who can be heard in the background to the song... 
After I posted my recording on Soundcloud today, I decided to do a search on the server, and I used Psalm 139 as my only search term like this https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Psalm%20139  I highly recommend sampling some of the 500+ tracks but chances are you won't even see my track with just that much as your search term. To find my Psalm 139recording, add my name along the line and I come up at the top. To save yourself a search all together: click here: https://soundcloud.com/rick-livermore-427817317

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Check out Hillsongs perform a Psalm 139:14 song based on a phrase in Psalm 139 verse 14 " my soul knows it very well"

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PSALM 139

TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID.

1 O LORD, you have searched 

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9 ַ֗נִי

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2983 חָקַר (ḥā·qǎr): v.; ≡ Str 2713; TWOT 729—1. LN 27.34–27.47 (qal) explore, searchout, discover, probe, sound out, examine, test, i.e., try to find out information about an object or event (Dt 13:15[EB 14]; Jdg 18:2(2×); 1Sa 20:12; 2Sa 10:3; 1Ch 19:3; Job 5:27; 13:9; 28:3, 27; 32:11; Ps 44:22[EB 21]; 139:1, 23; Pr 18:17; 23:30; 25:2; 28:11; Jer 17:10; La 3:40; Eze 39:14+); (piel) search out, inquire (Ecc 12:9+); (nif) searched(Jer 31:37+); 2. LN 30.75–30.85 (nif) determined, i.e., pertaining to a conclusion or decision based on a logical process (1Ki 7:47; 2Ch 4:18+); 3. LN 56.36–56.37 (qal) plead a case, i.e., speak as a defense attorney in a legal setting (Job 29:16+); 4. LN 79.24–79.25 unit: (nif) לֹא חָקַר (lō(ʾ) ḥā·qǎr) dense, thick, formally, not searchable, i.e., a collection which is in such close proximity that it is difficult to move through as an extension of an object which one cannot find out information (Jer 46:23+)[1]

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me and known 

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 yâda˓, yaw-dah’; a prim. root; to know (prop. to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, fig., lit., euphem. and infer. (incl. observation, care, recognition; and caus. instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) [as follow]:— acknowledge, acquaintance (-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, [un-] awares, can [-not], certainly, for a certainty, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be [ig-] norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to, let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have [knowledge], (be, make, make to be, make self)known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, [2]

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me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern 

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 bin (בִּין, 995), “to understand, be able, deal wisely, consider, pay attention to, regard, notice, discern, perceive, inquire.” This verb, which occurs 126 times in biblical Hebrew, has cognates in Ugaritic, Arabic, Ethiopic, late Aramaic, and Syriac. Bin appears in all periods of biblical Hebrew.
Bin appears in Jer. 9:12 with the meaning “to understand”: “Who is the wise man, that may understand this?” In Job 6:30 the word means “to discern,” and in Deut. 32:7 it means “to consider.”[3]

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my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 7 Where shall I go

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3212.      יָלַךְ yâlak, yaw-lak’; a prim. root [comp. 1980]; to walk (lit. or fig.); caus. to carry (in various senses):— × again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow (-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, make) go (away, ing, -ne, one’s way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ([-journey]), vanish, (cause to) walk (-ing), wax, × be weak.[5]

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go [6] 2 אֵלֵ֣ךְ ʾēlēḵ הלך   hlk VaI1-S  3212

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from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.13 For you formed my inward parts;

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you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

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990.      בֶּטֶן beṭen, beh’-ten; from an unused root prob. mean. to be hollow; the belly, espec. thewomb; also the bosom or body of anything:— belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb. [8]

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14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made

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Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.


15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. 19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!  O omen of blood, depart from me!  20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! [9]

Before I conclude this blog post, here is a batch of Psalm139 pop ups for you to read and compare.  24 verses will not fit in one pop up per translation so if you read a snippet of the chapter that you really want to check out, click the link "more" area in the popup and visit the Logos Faithlife server site to scroll down the entire chapter there instead of dealing with the popup here on my blog.

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This is the conclusion of this blog post

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Appendix:
Bibliography

The New King James Version. (1982). (Ps 139:1). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

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[2]Swanson, J. (1997). Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (electronic ed.). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc

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[3] Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., & White, W., Jr. (1996). Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Vol. 1, p. 273). Nashville, TN: T. Nelson.

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[4]The New King James Version. (1982). (Ps 139:2). Nashville: Thomas Nelson

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[5] Strong, J. (1996). The New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words. Nashville

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^[6] The New King James Version. (1982).(Ps 139:7) . Nashville: Thomas Nelson. 

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[7]The New King James Version. (1982). (Ps 139:13). Nashville: Thomas Nelson

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[8] Strong, J. (1996). The New Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

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[9]The New King James Version (1982). (Ps 139). Nashville: Thomas Nelson



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