Psalm 139:5 {138:5}
Good News Translation
You are all around me on every side; you protect me with your power.

New Revised Standard Version
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.

Contemporary English Version
and with your powerful arm you protect me from every side.

New American Bible
Behind and before you encircle me and rest your hand upon me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.

beset me

Deuteronomy 33:27 His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

Job 23:8,9 But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him. . . .

and laid

Exodus 24:11 Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.

Revelation 1:17 And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last,

Context
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
4And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue. 5Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.6Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.…
Cross References
Job 9:33
There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.

Psalm 34:7
The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them.

Psalm 125:2
In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

Psalm 139:4
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