Psalm 139:17 Parallel Translations
NASB: How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! (NASB ©1995)
GWT: How precious are your thoughts concerning me, O God! How vast in number they are!(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
ASV: How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
BBE: How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
DBY: But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O łGod! how great is the sum of them!
ERV: How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
JPS: How weighty also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
WBS: How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
WEB: How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
YLT: And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!
Psalm 139:17 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.

Psalm 92:5 How great are Your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 139:17 How {m} precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
(m) How should we esteem the excellent declaration of your wisdom in the creation of man?
WES: 139:17 Thoughts - Thy counsels on my behalf. Thou didst not only form me at first, but ever since my conception and birth, thy thoughts have been employed for me.
MHC: 139:17-24 God's counsels concerning us and our welfare are deep, such as cannot be known. We cannot think how many mercies we have received from him. It would help to keep us in the fear of the Lord all the day long, if, when we wake in the morning, our first thoughts were of him: and how shall we admire and bless our God for his precious salvation, when we awake in the world of glory! Surely we ought not to use our members and senses, which are so curiously fashioned, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. But our immortal and rational souls are a still more noble work and gift of God. Yet if it were not for his precious thoughts of love to us, our reason and our living for ever would, through our sins, prove the occasion of our eternal misery. How should we then delight to meditate on God's love to sinners in Jesus Christ, the sum of which exceeds all reckoning! Sin is hated, and sinners lamented, by all who fear the Lord. Yet while we shun them we should pray for them; with God their conversion and salvation are possible. As the Lord knows us thoroughly, and we are strangers to ourselves, we should earnestly desire and pray to be searched and proved by his word and Spirit. if there be any wicked way in me, let me see it; and do thou root it out of me. The way of godliness is pleasing to God, and profitable to us; and will end in everlasting life. It is the good old way. All the saints desire to be kept and led in this way, that they may not miss it, turn out of it, or tire in it.
CONC:Dear O Precious Sum Thoughts Vast Weighty
PREV:Dear Great Precious Sum Thoughts Vast Weighty
NEXT:Dear Great Precious Sum Thoughts Vast Weighty
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