Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
New American Standard Bible
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
King James Version
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Holman Bible
Where can I flee from Your presence?
International Standard Version
Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence?
A Conservative Version
Where shall I go from thy Spirit? Or where shall I flee from thy presence?
American Standard Version
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Amplified
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
Darby Translation
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?
Julia Smith Translation
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? and whither from thy face shall I flee?
King James 2000
Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Where I can go from your Spirit, or where can I flee from your presence?
Modern King James verseion
Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your presence?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whither shall I go then from thy spirit? Or, whither shall I flee from thy presence?
NET Bible
Where can I go to escape your spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?
New Heart English Bible
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
The Emphasized Bible
Whither can I go from thy spirit? or whither, from thy face, can I flee?
Webster
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
World English Bible
Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
Youngs Literal Translation
Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?
Themes
God » Is declared to be » Omnipresent
divine Presence » A terror to sinners a comfort to saints » A terror to evil does
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it. 7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you? 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Cross References
Jonah 1:3
And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:23-24
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
Jonah 1:10
And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them.
Acts 5:9
But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.