And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
Psalm 139:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) If I say, “Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; Even the night shall be light about me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me, American Standard Version (1901) If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night; Common English Bible If I said, “The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,” Catholic Public Domain Version Burning coals will fall upon them. You will cast them down into the fire, into miseries that they will not be able to withstand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand. |
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.