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

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18 Were I to count them,(A)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand(B)
    when I awake,(C) I am still with you.

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I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.

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I lie down and sleep;(A)
    I wake again,(B) because the Lord sustains me.

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Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

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You discern my going out(A) and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.(B)

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Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

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Many, Lord my God,
    are the wonders(A) you have done,
    the things you planned for us.
None can compare(B) with you;
    were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
    they would be too many(C) to declare.

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When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

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On my bed I remember you;
    I think of you through the watches of the night.(A)
Because you are my help,(B)
    I sing in the shadow of your wings.(C)

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15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

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15 As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;
    when I awake,(A) I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.(B)

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I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

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I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
    With him at my right hand,(A) I will not be shaken.(B)

Therefore my heart is glad(C) and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,(D)
10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,(E)
    nor will you let your faithful[a] one(F) see decay.(G)
11 You make known to me the path of life;(H)
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,(I)
    with eternal pleasures(J) at your right hand.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:10 Or holy

10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.(A)

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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake:(A) some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.(B)

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19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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19 But your dead(A) will live, Lord;
    their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust(B)
    wake up and shout for joy—
your dew(C) is like the dew of the morning;
    the earth will give birth to her dead.(D)

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12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

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12 For troubles(A) without number surround me;
    my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.(B)
They are more than the hairs of my head,(C)
    and my heart fails(D) within me.

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