Psalm 139:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. [Heb. 4:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

Common English Bible

⁴ There isn’t a word on my tongue, LORD, that you don’t already know completely.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips.

Psalm 139:4 Cross References

Job 38:2

“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 42:3

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me that I did not know.

Job 8:2

“How long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have perpetrated outrage in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them; I am the one who knows and bears witness, says the Lord.

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the people who settle like dregs in wine, those who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.