Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
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!
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 do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee? 8 If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee! 9 I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
Cross References
Job 26:6
Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.
Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah, Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.
Amos 9:2-4
If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.
Job 34:21-22
For His eyes are on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
Ezekiel 28:12-17
'Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Obadiah 1:4
If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Jonah 2:2
And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.