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 make my bed in
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 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!
Themes
Attributes of God » Omnipresence
God » Mercy of » Omnipresence of
Hell » In the rv the word "sheol" itself occurs in the following scriptures
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:8
Verse Info
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.