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Psalms 139:18 — King James Version← Study notes

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.


Psalms 139:18Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 139:186 words
HebrewMeaning
אֶ֭סְפְּרֵ/םʾesəpərēm
I will count themverbH5608
count; declare · number · penknife · reckon ···
מֵ/ח֣וֹלmēḥwōl
more than sandpronH2344
יִרְבּ֑וּ/ןyirəbwn
they will be numerous !verbH7235
archer (by mistake for
הֱ֝קִיצֹ֗תִיhĕqiyṣōtiy
I awokeverbH6974
wake · watch
וְ/עוֹדִ֥/יwəʿwōdiy
and still IconjH5750
all life long · at all · besides · but ···
עִמָּֽ/ךְʿimākə
am with youpronH5973
against · and · as · before ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 139:18

1. ...Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks in the Prophets, sometimes in His own Name, sometimes in ours, because He makes Himself one with us; as it is said, “they two shall be one flesh.” Wherefore also the Lord says in the Gospel, speaking of marriage, “therefore they are no more two, but one flesh.” One flesh, because of our mortality He took flesh; not one divinity, for He is the Creator, we the creature. Whatsoever then our Lord speaks in the person of the Flesh He took upon…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 139 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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