Psalms 139:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:22 : 22 He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.
  • Ps 94:7 : 7 Then they say,“The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
  • Isa 29:15 : 15 Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”
  • Job 22:12-14 : 12 “Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are! 13 But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness? 14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’
  • Ps 10:11-13 : 11 He says to himself,“God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.” 12 Rise up, LORD! O God, strike him down! Do not forget the oppressed! 13 Why does the wicked man reject God? He says to himself,“You will not hold me accountable.”

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    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

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    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

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    28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

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    29Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.

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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

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    8By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the God of my life.

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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

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    8Jerusalem Will Be Vindicated My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

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    18If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.

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    35Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.

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    26But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

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    72%

    10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

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    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

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    72%

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    13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

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    3When I am afraid, I trust in you.

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    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

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    71%

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    71%

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