Psalms 139:9
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
BSB
ASV
If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
KJV
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
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.
The wings - If I should flee from east to west: for the sea being the western border of Canaan, is often put for the west in scripture. And wings are poetically ascribed to the morning here, as they are elsewhere to the sun, and to the winds.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. If I could fly with all swiftness, and find a habitation where the mariner has not yet ploughed the deep, yet I could not reach the boundaries of the divine presence. Light flies with inconceivable rapidity, and it flashes far afield beyond all human ken; it illuminates the great and wide sea, and sets its waves gleaming afar; but its speed would utterly fail if employed in flying from the Lord.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Malachi 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.
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Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds…
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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Psalms 18:10He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
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laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
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Psalms 19:6it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
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The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
