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You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
    your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
    none can compare with you.
Were I to proclaim and tell of them,
    they would be more than can be counted.(A)

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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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11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.(A)

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11 For I know the plans(A) I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper(B) you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.(C)

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17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!(A)
18 I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
    I come to the end[a]—I am still with you.

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Footnotes

  1. 139.18 Or I awake

17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a](A) God!(B)
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,(C)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand(D)
    when I awake,(E) I am still with you.

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Footnotes

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

11 Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
    Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
    awesome in splendor, doing wonders?(A)

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11 Who among the gods
    is like you,(A) Lord?
Who is like you—
    majestic in holiness,(B)
awesome in glory,(C)
    working wonders?(D)

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How great are your works, O Lord!
    Your thoughts are very deep!(A)

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How great are your works,(A) Lord,
    how profound your thoughts!(B)

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15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
    of your deeds of salvation all day long,
    though their number is past my knowledge.(A)

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15 My mouth will tell(A) of your righteous deeds,(B)
    of your saving acts all day long—
    though I know not how to relate them all.

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who alone does great wonders,
    for his steadfast love endures forever;(A)

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to him who alone does great wonders,(A)
His love endures forever.

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is so high that I cannot attain it.(A)

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,(A)
    too lofty(B) for me to attain.

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For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(A)

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“For my thoughts(A) are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”(B)
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,(C)
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.(D)

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10 he does great things beyond understanding
    and marvelous things without number.(A)

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10 He performs wonders(A) that cannot be fathomed,
    miracles that cannot be counted.(B)

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He does great things and unsearchable,
    marvelous things without number.(A)

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14 These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways,
    and how small a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?”(A)

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14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper(A) we hear of him!(B)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”(C)

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Then all these officials of yours shall come down to me and bow low to me, saying, ‘Leave us, you and all the people who follow you.’ After that I will leave.” And in hot anger he left Pharaoh.(A)

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All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go,(A) you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.”(B) Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.

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