Psalms 139:9
7 Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10 even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
- KJV
- If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
- WEB
- If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
- ASV
- If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
- DARBY
- [If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
- BLB
- [If] I lift up the wings of the morning, if I settle in the furthest part of the sea,
- ÅB
- Tar jeg morgenrødens vinger, og vil jeg bo ved havets ytterste grense,
- OTB
- Om jeg tar morgenrødens vinger,
Og bor ved havets ytterste grense, - B1930
- Tar jeg morgenrødens vinger, og vil jeg bo ved havets ytterste grense,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 19:6
it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
Read in contextPsalms 74:16–17
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
Read in contextMalachi 4:2
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
Read in context