...safety in our troubles. Only this kind of cosmic assurance will work, the kind we get from Psalm 139: "If I climb up into heaven, thou art there; if I go down to hell, thou art there also, if I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there...

...think of. The awful God! "Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I go from Thy Presence? If I climb up into heaven, Thou art there; if I go down to hell, Thou art there also." Where life is, there is He; and though it be but the life of death — the living death of eternal...

...lyrics, a psalm underlies the experiences described - in this case, Psalms cxxxix 7: 'If I climb up to heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also.' Modern criticism. The poem's imagery has been much discussed. See, for example, Tuve 144-8,...