Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. : — If you were called to take some such awful journey as Virgil and Dante have fabled in their poems when their heroes descended into the dread Avernus, you need not tremble, though it were said of you, as of them: — "Along the illuminated shade, Darkening and lone, their way they made."If, I say, you were bound to traverse the sepulchral vaults, and all the gloomy dungeons of Hades, yet you need not fear, for "underneath are the everlasting arms." ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.WEB: If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! |
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