You Have Searched Me and Known Me
Psalms 139:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
- KJV
- If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
- WEB
- If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!Sheol is the place of the dead.
- ASV
- If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
- LSV
- If I ascend the heavens—You [are] there, || And spread out a bed in Sheol, behold, You!
- YLT
- If I ascend the heavens — there Thou [art], And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
- DBY
- If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
- DRC138:8
- If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.
- GNV
- If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.
- JPS
- If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.
- LXXE138:8
- If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אִם־אֶסַּ֣ק שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑תָּה וְאַצִּ֖יעָה שְּׁא֣וֹל הִנֶּֽךָּ׃
- LXX-Br138:8
- Ἐὰν ἀναβῶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, σὺ ἐκεῖ εἶ· ἐὰν καταβῶ εἰς τὸν ᾅδην, πάρει.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
GodHadesReadings, SelectDecease, in the Old Testament and ApocyphraHoly Spirit, the, Is GodSheolOmniscienceHellDeathEschatology of the Old Testament
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Amos 9:2–4Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down. Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them;…
- Jonah 2:2saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
- Job 34:21–22For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step. There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- Obadiah 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
- Proverbs 15:11Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD— how much more the hearts of men!
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Ezekiel 28:12–17“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every…
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 138:8 in some Bibles
- 139:8 in most Bibles