Psalms 139:7
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
BSB
ASV
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
KJV
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
In devout thoughts such as these my soul, engrossed in the pursuit of truth, took its delight. For it seemed that the greatness of God so far surpassed the mental powers of His handiwork, that however far the limited mind of man might strain in the hazardous effort to define Him, the gap was not lessened between the finite nature which struggled and the boundless infinity that lay beyond its ken.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit?.... Or, "from thy wind?" which some interpret literally, the wind being God's creature; which he brings out of his treasures, and holds in his fists, and disposes of as he pleases; this takes its circuit through all the points of the heavens, and blows everywhere, more or less.
Here omnipresence is the theme, —a truth to which omniscience naturally leads up. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Not that the Psalmist wished to go from God, or to avoid the power of the divine life; but he asks this question to set forth the fact that no one can escape from the all pervading being and observation of the Great Invisible Spirit. Observe how the writer makes the matter personal to himself—"Whither shall I go?" It were well if we all thus applied truth to our own cases.
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Jonah 1:3Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went…
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Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, including the territory across from Joppa.
So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
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Acts 5:9“How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?” Peter replied. “Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
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Jonah 1:10Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
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Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went…
