Psalm 139:7-12

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Where can I go to escape Your Spirit?
Where can I flee from Your presence?^(A)

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If I go up to heaven, You are there;^(B)
if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.^(C)

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If I live at the eastern horizon
or settle at the western limits,^(a)

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even there Your hand will lead me;
Your right hand will hold on to me.^(D)

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If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”^(E)—

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even the darkness is not dark to You.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to You.^(F)

a. Psalm 139:9: Lit I take up the wings of the dawn; I dwell at the end of the sea

A. Psalm 139:7: Jeremiah 23:24

B. Psalm 139:8: Amos 9:2-4

C. Psalm 139:8: Job 26:6; Isaiah 14:11

D. Psalm 139:9: Psalm 23:2-3

E. Psalm 139:11: Job 22:13-14

F. Psalm 139:12: Job 34:22; Daniel 2:22