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17 How deep[a] are your thoughts, God!
    How great is their number!
18 Were I to count them,
    they would number more than the sand.
        When I awake, I will be with you.

19 God, if only you would execute the wicked,
    so that[b] the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:17 Or precious
  2. Psalm 139:19 So LXX DSS 11QPsa; MT reads and so that

17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto 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 thee.

19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

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