Psalms 139:18

In 11 translations

BSB

If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

KJV

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

WEB

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

ASV

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.

LSV

I recount them! They are more than the sand, || I have awoken, and I am still with You.

YLT

I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

DBY

[If] I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

DRC138:18

I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.

GNV

If I should count them, they are moe then the sand: when I wake, I am still with thee.

JPS

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand; were I to come to the end of them, I would still be with Thee.

LXXE138:18

I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אֶ֭סְפְּרֵם מֵח֣וֹל יִרְבּ֑וּן הֱ֝קִיצֹ֗תִי וְעוֹדִ֥י עִמָּֽךְ׃

LXX-Br138:18

Ἐξαριθμήσομαι αὐτοὺς καὶ ὑπὲρ ἄμμον πληθυνθήσονται· ἐξηγέρθην, καὶ ἔτι εἰμὶ μετὰ σοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 3:5I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
• Psalms 139:3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
• 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.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
• Psalms 16:8–11I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely. For You will not abandon my soul to…
• Psalms 63:6–7When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night. For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.
• Psalms 17:15As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
• Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
• Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

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