Psalms 139:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

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Referenced Verses

  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
  • Ps 18:10 : 10 And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.
  • Ps 74:16-17 : 16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun. 17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.
  • Isa 24:14-16 : 14 But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord. 15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands. 16 From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 139:1-8
    8 verses
    85%

    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?

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

  • Ps 139:10-15
    6 verses
    79%

    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 139:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 55:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

    7 I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

    8 I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.

  • 8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

  • 73%

    8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

  • 9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • 22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

  • 3 The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

  • 10 And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

  • 16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 7 Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

  • 11 And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

  • 4 I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

  • Amos 9:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    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:

  • 17 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

  • 8 Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • Job 38:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

    13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Jonah 2:3-5
    3 verses
    70%

    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.

    5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

  • 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • Ps 139:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 16 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • 8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

  • 27 When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

  • 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 4 You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

  • 8 Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,