Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.

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 Version

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

Holman 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!

A Conservative Version

If I ascend up into heaven, thou are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou are there.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there.

Bible in Basic English

If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee.

King James 2000

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If I ascend to heaven, there you [are], and if I make my bed [in] Sheol, look! [There] you [are].

Modern King James verseion

If I go up into Heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

NET Bible

If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

New Heart English Bible

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.

The Emphasized Bible

If I ascend the heavens, there, thou art! If I spread out hades as my couch, behold thee!

Webster

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

World English Bible

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 139:8

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

God

Context Readings

The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God

7 Whither shall I go then from thy spirit? Or, whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost part of the sea,

Cross References

Job 26:6

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

Proverbs 15:11

The hell with her pain is known to the LORD; how much more then the hearts of men?

Amos 9:2-4

Though they were buried in the hell, my hand shall fetch them from thence. Though they climb up to heaven, yet shall I cast them down.

Job 34:21-22

And why? His eyes look upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Ezekiel 28:12-17

"Thou son of man, make a lamentable complaint over the king of Tyre, and tell him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Thou art a seal of a likeness, full of wisdom and excellent beauty.

Obadiah 1:4

But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.

Jonah 2:2

And he said, "In my tribulation I called unto the LORD, and he answered me: out of the belly of hell I cried, and thou heardest my voice.

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