Psalms 139:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

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  • Job 26:6 : 6 Sheol{Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God, And Abaddon{Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
  • Amos 9:2-4 : 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
  • Jonah 2:2 : 2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
  • Ezek 28:12-17 : 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared. 14 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on 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 unrighteousness was found in you. 16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, 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 have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
  • Job 34:21-22 : 21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, He sees all his goings. 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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  • Ps 139:9-15
    7 verses
    85%

    9 If I take the wings of the dawn, And settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

    10 Even there your hand will lead me, And your right hand will hold me.

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"

    12 Even the darkness doesn't hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

    13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

    14 I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

    15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 139:1-7
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    1 > Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me.

    2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

    3 You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.

    4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

    5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

    6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

    7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

  • Ps 139:17-18
    2 verses
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    17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

    18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

  • 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? Deeper than Sheol: what can you know?

  • 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

  • 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

  • 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  • Ps 73:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

    24 You will guide me with your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.

    25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

  • 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.

  • Ps 139:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

    24 See if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

  • 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

  • 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

  • 3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

  • 3 The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 6 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

  • 5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

  • 16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • 10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, Neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

  • 12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

  • 20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, You will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

  • 16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

  • 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • 9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, And the Most High your dwelling place,

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

  • 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

  • 9 Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.

  • 11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • Jonah 2:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

    4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.