Psalms 139:8
If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
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- Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
- Prov 15:11 : 11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
- Amos 9:2-4 : 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite: 4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.
- Jonah 2:2 : 2 Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
- Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.
- Ezek 28:12-17 : 12 Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful; 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready. 14 I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire. 15 There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you. 16 Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.
- Job 34:21-22 : 21 For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
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9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;
10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
- Ps 139:1-77 verses85%
1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
- Ps 139:17-182 verses76%
17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
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8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
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2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
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3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
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13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
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23 But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.
24 Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.
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6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
- Ps 139:23-242 verses73%
23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
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6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.
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15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
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3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
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13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
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24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
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3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
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6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
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16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
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10 For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
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12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
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20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
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16 For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
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4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
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9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;
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13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
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11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
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9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
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3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
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11 Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
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3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.
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13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.