Parallel Verses
King James Version
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
New American Standard Bible
When
Holman Bible
they would outnumber the grains of sand;
when I wake up,
International Standard Version
Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you.
A Conservative Version
I count them; they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
American Standard Version
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.
Amplified
If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
Bible in Basic English
If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
Darby Translation
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
Julia Smith Translation
I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee.
King James 2000
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I should count them, they would outnumber [the] sand. I awaken, and I [am] still with you.
Modern King James verseion
If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.
NET Bible
If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.
New Heart English Bible
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
The Emphasized Bible
I would recount them! Beyond the sands, they multiply, I rouse myself - and am still with thee.
Webster
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
World English Bible
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
Youngs Literal Translation
I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. 19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Cross References
Psalm 3:5
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalm 16:8-11
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalm 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 more than can be numbered.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Psalm 63:6-7
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Psalm 139:3
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Isaiah 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.
Daniel 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.