Psalms 139:7
Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?
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Referenced Verses
- Jonah 1:3 : 3 Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the LORD. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the LORD.
- Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the LORD asks. 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
- Jonah 1:10 : 10 Hearing this, the men became even more afraid and said to him,“What have you done?”(The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape from the LORD, because he had previously told them.)
- Acts 5:9 : 9 Peter then told her,“Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”
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- Ps 139:8-158 verses85%
8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.
9If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,
10even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.
11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.
14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;
15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.
- Ps 139:1-66 verses83%
1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.
2You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.
3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.
4Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.
5You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me.
6Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.
- Ps 139:23-242 verses75%
23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!
24See if there is any idolatrous way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!
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11Do not reject me! Do not take your holy Spirit away from me!
- Ps 139:17-182 verses74%
17How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total!
18If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.
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19Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
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3If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
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9Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD! I run to you for protection.
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3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
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10With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!
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24“Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
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1For the music director; by David. In the LORD I have taken shelter. How can you say to me,“Flee to a mountain like a bird!
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24Whatever has happened is beyond human understanding; it is far deeper than anyone can fathom.
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7“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?
8It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?
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4To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?
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25Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire no one but you on earth.
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8The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.
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21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.
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19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,
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13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
- Ps 55:6-83 verses71%
6I say,“I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!
7Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness.(Selah)
8I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale.”
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1A psalm of David. LORD, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?
- Job 10:6-72 verses71%
6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
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4I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!
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4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
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4Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.
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7Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
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11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
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28I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.
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12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
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8My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O LORD.