If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
Parallel translations
- KJV If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
- BSB If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
- NKJV If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
- NASB Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
- NLT I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
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- Ps 3:5I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
- Ps 139:3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
- Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
- Ps 63:6–7when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
- Ps 16:8–11I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- 1 Th 5:10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
- Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
- Dan 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
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