Psalms 139:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:5 : 5 I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
  • Ps 139:3 : 3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
  • Ps 16:8-9 : 8 I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved. 9 Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope. 10 For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death. 11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
  • Ps 63:6-7 : 6 When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time. 7 Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:1-17
    17 verses
    86%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

    2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

    3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

    5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

    6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

    7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

    9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

    10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

    13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

    14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

    15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

    17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

  • 5 O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

  • 19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

  • Ps 139:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

    23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:

    24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.

  • 6 When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

  • Ps 40:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • 23 But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

  • 16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

  • 19 Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

  • 18 Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

  • 8 You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

  • 30 But the hairs of your head are all numbered.

  • 15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.

  • 5 O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

  • 68%

    1 <A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son.> Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

  • 14 But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

  • 68%

    3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

  • 4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

  • Ps 3:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5 I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.

    6 I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

  • 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • 14 But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

  • 19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • 18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • 148 In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

  • 3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • 1 <Michtam. Of David.> Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

  • 176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

  • 8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

  • 36 You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

  • 3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.