If I say: “Surely darkness covers me, night keeps light at a distance from me,”
Then she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your handmaid was asleep. She laid him at her breast and laid her dead child at my breast.
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into light.
There is no gloom and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
So they say: “Adonai does not see— the God of Jacob pays no attention.”
Oy , those who go to great depths to hide their plans from Adonai! Their works are in the dark. They say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Can anyone hide himself in places so secret that I will not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth?” It is a declaration of Adonai.