Psalm 139:11 - The Scriptures 2009

¹¹ If I say, “Darkness shall cover me,” Then night would be light to me;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; Even the night shall be light about me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

Common English Bible

¹¹ If I said, “The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Burning coals will fall upon them. You will cast them down into the fire, into miseries that they will not be able to withstand.

Psalm 139:11 Cross References

1 Kings 3:20

“And she rose up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your female servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Job 12:22

revealing deep matters out of darkness, and He brings the shadow of death to light;

Job 34:22

There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of wickedness hide themselves.

Psalm 94:7

Yet they say, “Yah does not see, And the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ pays no heed.”

Isaiah 29:15

Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from יהוה, and their works are in the dark; they say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”

Jeremiah 23:24

“If anyone is hidden in secret places, would I not see him?” declares יהוה. “Do I not fill the heavens and earth?” declares יהוה.