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18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
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I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
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.
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. …
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-24)Here the psalmist makes application of the doctrine of God’s omniscience, divers ways. I. He acknowledges, with wonder and thankfulness, the care God had taken of him all his days, Ps. 139:17 , 18 . God, who knew him, thought of him, and his thoughts towards him were thoughts of love, thought of good, and not of evil , Jer. 29:11. God’s omniscience, which might justly have watched over us to do us…
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