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Psalms 139:18

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

KJV

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

ASV

אֶ֭סְפְּרֵ/ם מֵ/ח֣וֹל יִרְבּ֑וּ/ן הֱ֝קִיצֹ֗תִי וְ/עוֹדִ֥/י עִמָּֽ/ךְ

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הַרְבֵּ֥ה
hrbh
verb · 233×
ח֣וֹל
chvl
noun · 23×
יָקִ֑יצוּ
yqytsv
verb · 23×
סֹּפֵ֔ר
spr
verb · 161×
ע֖וֹד
'vd
adverb · 485×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 5:10 — Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  • Dan 12:2 — And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Isa 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
  • Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
  • Ps 3:5 — I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
  • Ps 16:8 — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Ps 16:8 — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Ps 17:15 — As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
  • Ps 40:5 — Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are
  • Ps 63:6 — When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
  • Ps 73:23 — Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
  • Ps 119:55 — I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
  • Ps 139:3 — Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
  • Ps 139:3 — Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.