Psalms 139:17

In 11 translations

BSB

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!Or How amazing are Your thoughts concerning me

KJV

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

WEB

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

ASV

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

LSV

And how precious Your thoughts have been to me, || O God, how great has been their sum!

YLT

And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!

DBY

But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!El

DRC138:17

But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.

GNV

Howe deare therefore are thy thoughtes vnto me, O God! how great is ye summe of them!

JPS

How weighty also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

LXXE138:17

But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.

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WLC

וְלִ֗י מַה־יָּקְר֣וּ רֵעֶ֣יךָ אֵ֑ל מֶ֥ה עָ֝צְמוּ רָאשֵׁיהֶֽם׃

LXX-Br138:17

Ἐμοὶ δὲ λίαν ἐτιμήθησαν οἱ φίλοι σου ὁ Θεὸς, λίαν ἐκραταιώθησαν αἱ ἀρχαὶ αὐτῶν.

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• Psalms 40:5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
• Jeremiah 29:11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
• Isaiah 55:8–9“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
• Psalms 92:5How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
• Psalms 36:7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
• Ephesians 3:9–10and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be…
• Psalms 31:19How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
• Proverbs 8:31I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.

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