Psalms 139:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

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  • Job 26:6 : 6 Hell is naked before Him, and destruction has 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, from there my hand will take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
  • Jonah 2:2 : 2 And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and He heard me; out of the depths of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 28:12-17 : 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created. 14 You are the anointed cherub who covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you. 16 By the abundance of your trading they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.
  • Job 34:21-22 : 21 For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He sees all his goings. 22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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

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

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

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

    13For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

    14I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.

    15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 139:1-7
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    1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

    2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar.

    3You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

    4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

    5You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

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

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    17How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

    18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.

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

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