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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

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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