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Psalms 139:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Psalms 139:8

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6 This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

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

9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

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"Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit."

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Nehemiah 1:9

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"but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’"

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Psalms 139:1

"LORD, you have searched me, and you know me."

Psalms 139:2

"You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar."

Psalms 139:3

"You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways."

Psalms 139:4

"For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether."

Psalms 139:5

"You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me."

Psalms 139:6

"This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it."

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