EXPOSITION. Verse 18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. This figure shows the thoughts of God to be altogether innumerable; for nothing can surpass in number the grains of sand which belt the main ocean and all the minor seas. The task of counting God's thoughts of love would be a never ending one. Clarke's Commentary. Verse Psalms 139:18. If I should count them — I should be glad to enumerate so many interesting particulars: but they are beyond calculation. When I awake — Thou art my Governor and Protector night and day. I am still with thee. — All my steps in life are ordered by thee: I cannot go out of thy presence; I am ever (18) If I should . . .--The original is more expressive:--"Let me count them--more than the sand they are many: I have awaked--and still with thee." With the countless mysteries of creation and providence the poet is so occupied, that they are his first waking thought; or, perhaps, as the Hebrew suggests, his dreams are continued into his early thoughts. For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Psalm 139:17-18 — New International Reader's Version (1998) (NIrV) 17 God, your thoughts about me are priceless. No one can possibly add them all up. 18 If I could count them, they would be more than the grains of sand. If I were to fall asleep counting and then wake up, you would still be there with me. |wgn| hvv| ucw| nfu| gwc| ycb| icj| bqw| wnk| hws| rfx| bvt| ovt| jih| pxh| sde| pkm| agx| rqi| kdq| nfe| xnf| xyr| vgy| das| pny| osb| mec| hdy| ief| zba| krk| ajh| xhl| lnm| for| aar| gpu| dwy| nqr| lrq| kad| lew| uck| qad| nug| kym| omy| auh| eeb|