Psalms 139:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 26:6 : 6 Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 ¶ Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
  • Amos 9:2-4 : 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Jonah 2:2 : 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice.
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
  • Ezek 28:12-17 : 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
  • Job 34:21-22 : 21 For his eyes [are] upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. 22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:9-15
    7 verses
    85%

    9 [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

    10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

    11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

    13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

    14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.

    15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

  • Ps 139:1-7
    7 verses
    85%

    1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

    2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

    3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

    4 For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

    5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

    6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

    7 ¶ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

  • Ps 139:17-18
    2 verses
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    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.

  • 8 [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

  • 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

  • 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

  • 13 If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Ps 73:23-25
    3 verses
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    23 Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right hand.

    24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory.

    25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee.

  • 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

  • Ps 139:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

    24 And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

  • 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

  • 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  • 3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

  • 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

  • 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  • 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

  • 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

  • 12 [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

  • 20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

  • 16 ¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

  • 4 ¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

  • 9 ¶ Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even] the most High, thy habitation;

  • 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

  • 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?

  • 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  • 11 The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

  • Jonah 2:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

    4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • 13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.