Psalms 139:7-8

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 139

9 songs meet this passage

  • “What if all my sins never met a god?”

    Little Lies · ODIE

    strains against Psalms 139:7-8

    The song voices fear that sin might go unseen or unmet by God, while this Psalm insists there is nowhere one's deeds can hide from His presence.

  • Trees · twenty one pilots

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-8

    Sensing a presence that is both close and unreachable mirrors the psalmist's wrestle with a God who is inescapably near yet hard to grasp.

  • i won't see angels when i die, they'll laugh as i fall (feat. DethTech) · izumi is dead

    strains against Psalms 139:7-8

    The lyric treats the fall as inevitable and unwatched, while the psalm insists there is nowhere, not even the depths, where God's presence doesn't reach.

  • The Blessing (Live) · Elevation Worship, Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-10

    The song's declaration that God goes before, behind, beside, around, and within the listener mirrors this psalm's portrait of God's presence as inescapable and encompassing.

  • “You are not hidden”

    Rescue · Lauren Daigle

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-10

    God's inescapable presence is the same assurance given here: nowhere is truly hidden from His reach or care.

  • Hold On To Me · Lauren Daigle

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-10

    The psalmist asks where he could possibly flee from God's presence and concludes there is nowhere. The song's cry to be held even when letting go rests on the same conviction that God's hand reaches into every dark place.

  • “Where can you run to escape from yourself?”

    Dare You to Move · Switchfoot

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-10

    The impossibility of escaping oneself echoes the psalmist's realization that there is nowhere to flee from God's presence, which here becomes a place of rescue rather than dread.

  • Graves into Gardens (Live) · Elevation Worship & Brandon Lake

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-10

    Affirms that God's presence and mercy reach every place, high or low, just as the psalmist describes.

  • By Design (feat. André Benjamin) [Instrumental] · Kid Cudi

    resonates with Psalms 139:7-10

    Cudi's sense that he is being guided, that the path is not coincidence, and that light is somewhere ahead mirrors the Psalmist's conviction that there is nowhere to go where God is not already there leading the way.

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