Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

139:17-18 How Precious Are Your Thoughts to Me! These verses provide the right response to the vast extent of God's thoughts (cf. v. 6). Verse 18 seems to picture the hopelessness of trying to count God's thoughts: the number is so large that one would fall asleep; and even so, God will not abandon his faithful (I awake, and I am still with you).