Parallel Verses
Amplified
If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
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.
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 Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I could count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
Go away from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.
Cross References
Psalm 3:5
I lay down and slept [safely];
I awakened, for the Lord sustains me.
Psalm 16:8-11
I have set the Lord continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I shall see Your face in righteousness;
I will be [fully] satisfied when I awake [to find myself] seeing Your likeness.
Psalm 40:5
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of your wonders,
They would be too many to count.
Psalm 40:12
For innumerable evils have encompassed me;
My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.
Psalm 63:6-7
When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,
Psalm 139:3
You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will live;
You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy!
For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural],
And the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.
Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake (resurrect), these to everlasting life, but some to disgrace and everlasting contempt (abhorrence).
1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died [willingly] for us, so that whether we are awake (alive) or asleep (dead) [at Christ’s appearing], we will live together with Him [sharing eternal life].