Psalm 139:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there. [Rom. 11:33.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

Common English Bible

⁸ If I went up to heaven, you would be there. If I went down to the grave, you would be there too!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Lord, O Lord, the strength of my salvation: you have overshadowed my head in the day of war.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

Psalm 139:8 Cross References

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord; how much more human hearts!

Jeremiah 23:24

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.

Obadiah 1:4

Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the Lord.

Jonah 2:2

saying, “I called to the Lord out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.