Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

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

If I counted them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand;
when I wake up, I am still with You.

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God

17 How precious are your thoughts to me, O God! How numerous is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
19 If you would destroy the wicked, O God, depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

Cross References

Psalm 3:5

I lie down and sleep. I wake up again because Jehovah continues to sustain me.

Psalm 16:8-11

I always keep Jehovah in front of me. When he is at my right hand (assisting me), I cannot be moved.

Psalm 17:15

I will see your face (be in your presence) when I am declared righteous. When I wake up, I will be satisfied to see (perceive) (comprehend) you.

Psalm 40:5

O Jehovah my God, Many are the wonders that you have done and your thoughts toward us. None can compare with you. If I would declare and teach about them, they would be too numerous to report.

Psalm 40:12

Countless evils have surrounded me. My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost heart (lost strength, courage and motivation).

Psalm 63:6-7

As I lie on my bed, I remember you. Through the long hours of the night, I think about you.

Psalm 139:3

You inspect my path and my lying down. You are intimately acquainted with my ways.

Isaiah 26:19

But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

He died for us, that, whether we are awake in this life or sleep in death, we should live together with him.

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