Psalm 139:8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

English Standard Version
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

New American Standard Bible
If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

King James Bible
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If I go up to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

International Standard Version
If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are!

American Standard Version
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

Darby Bible Translation
If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there;

Young's Literal Translation
If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

Cross References

Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

Psalm 139:9
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Jeremiah 51:53
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come to her, said the LORD.

Ezekiel 32:25
They have set her a bed in the middle of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the middle of them that be slain.

Amos 9:2
Though they dig into hell, there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, there will I bring them down:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

139:7-16 We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Whither can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy reach. No veil can hide us from God; not the thickest darkness. No disguise can save any person or action from being seen in the true light by him. Secret haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. On the other hand, the believer cannot be removed from the supporting, comforting presence of his Almighty Friend. Should the persecutor take his life, his soul will the sooner ascend to heaven. The grave cannot separate his body from the love of his Saviour, who will raise it a glorious body. No outward circumstances can separate him from his Lord. While in the path of duty, he may be happy in any situation, by the exercise of faith, hope, and prayer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 139

Ps 139:1-24. After presenting the sublime doctrines of God's omnipresence and omniscience, the Psalmist appeals to Him, avowing his innocence, his abhorrence of the wicked, and his ready submission to the closest scrutiny. Admonition to the wicked and comfort to the pious are alike implied inferences from these doctrines.