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16     Your eyes saw me unformed,
yet in Your book
    all my days were written,
    before any of them came into being.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
    How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them,
    they are more in number than the sand;
when I awake,
    I am still with You.

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16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained(A) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a](B) God!(C)
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,(D)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand(E)
    when I awake,(F) I am still with you.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:17 Or How amazing are your thoughts concerning me

16 Your eyes watched me before I was born.
Before I had seen the light of day,
    you decided how many days I would live!
    You wrote it down in your book.
17 You have so many thoughts about me, God,
    that I cannot understand them all.
18 They are too many for me to count,
    more than the sand on the shore of the sea.
Even if I finished counting them,
    you would still be there!

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