Psalms 139:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 3:5 : 5 I rested and slept; I awoke, for the LORD protects me.
  • Ps 139:3 : 3 You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake– some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
  • 1 Thess 5:10 : 10 He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.
  • Ps 16:8-9 : 8 I constantly trust in the LORD; because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe. 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit. 11 You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.
  • Ps 40:5 : 5 O LORD, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.
  • Ps 63:6-7 : 6 whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours. 7 For you are my deliverer; under your wings I rejoice.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:1-17
    17 verses
    86%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

    2You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

    3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

    4Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.

    5You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me.

    6Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

    7Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

    9If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,

    10even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

    17How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total!

  • Ps 40:5
    76%

    5O LORD, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!

  • Ps 139:19
    73%

    19If only you would kill the wicked, O God! Get away from me, you violent men!

  • Ps 139:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!

    24See if there is any idolatrous way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!

  • Ps 63:6
    71%

    6whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

  • Ps 40:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11O LORD, you do not withhold your compassion from me. May your loyal love and faithfulness continually protect me!

    12For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

  • Ps 73:23
    71%

    23But I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.

  • Job 14:16
    70%

    16The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

  • Ps 94:19
    70%

    19When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.

  • Job 29:18
    70%

    18Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

  • Ps 56:8
    69%

    8You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?

  • Matt 10:30
    69%

    30Even all the hairs on your head are numbered.

  • Ps 17:15
    69%

    15As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.

  • Ps 92:5
    68%

    5How great are your works, O LORD! Your plans are very intricate!

  • Ps 3:1
    68%

    1A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom. LORD, how numerous are my enemies! Many attack me.

  • Ps 31:14
    68%

    14But I trust in you, O LORD! I declare,“You are my God!”

  • Ps 8:3
    68%

    3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

  • Ps 77:4
    68%

    4You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

  • Ps 3:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5I rested and slept; I awoke, for the LORD protects me.

    6I am not afraid of the multitude of people who attack me from all directions.

  • Job 7:4
    68%

    4If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

  • Ps 71:14
    68%

    14As for me, I will wait continually, and will continue to praise you.

  • Ps 25:19
    67%

    19Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.

  • Ps 118:18
    67%

    18The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.

  • Ps 119:148
    67%

    148My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.

  • Ps 142:3
    67%

    3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

  • Ps 16:1
    67%

    1A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

  • Ps 119:176
    67%

    176I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

  • Ps 143:8
    67%

    8May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.

  • Ps 18:36
    67%

    36You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

  • Ps 27:3
    67%

    3Even when an army is deployed against me, I do not fear. Even when war is imminent, I remain confident.