King James Version
Psalms 139:18 in the King James Version says “If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 139 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.”
Psalms 139:18 · KJV
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. all: Heb. all of them which: or, what days they should be fashioned
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“If I should count”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
“I am still”
H5750properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
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