Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
When
King James Version
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
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.
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 dear are thy counsels unto me, O God! O how great is the sum of them! 18 If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee. 19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O God, that the bloodthirsty might depart from me?
Cross References
Psalm 3:5
I laid me down and slept, and rose up again; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalm 16:8-11
I have set the LORD always before me; for he is on my righthand. Therefore I shall not fall.
Psalm 17:15
They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.
Psalm 40:5
O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.
Psalm 63:6-7
Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking?
Psalm 139:3
Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways.
Isaiah 26:19
But as for thy dead men and ours, that be departed, they are in life and resurrection. They lie in the earth, they wake, and have joy: for thy dew is a dew of life and light. But the place of the malicious Tyrants is fallen away.
Daniel 12:2
Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to perpetual shame and reproof.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
which died for us: that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.