Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? The rhetorical questions asserting the inescapability of God's presence begin the second major movement of the psalm. Flee from your presence suggests active attempt to escape divine knowledge or judgment; yet the question form asserts the futility of flight. Your spirit and your presence indicate that God's omniscience is expressed through the divine presence that pervades all reality. This verse moves from affirming omniscience to exploring its implications: nowhere can one hide from God.

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