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Psalms 139:11
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9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall1 fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me; 
12 Indeed, athe darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You. 
13 For You1 formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb. 
14 I will praise You, for1 I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well. 
15 aMy1 frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
17 aHow precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them! 
18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
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Psalms 139:11

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me - If I seek to find refuge in the darkness of the night so that God would not see me. The word rendered "cover" - ׁ shûph - means properly to snap, to gape after; then, to lie in wait for; and then, to attack, or fall upon anyone, unexpectedly. It is rendered "bruise" (twice) in Genesis 3:15, "He shall "bruise" thy head, and thou shalt "bruise" his heel;" "breaketh" in Job 9:17, "He "breaketh" me with a tempest;" and in this place "cover." It does not occur elsewhere. Here it means to fall upon; to overpower; to cover. The idea is, If it should come suddenly upon me; if I should be involved in sudden darkness - "as if" the darkness should come and attempt to "snatch" me away from God. All this would be in vain, for it would be, so far as God is concerned, bright day around me.

Even the night shall be light about me - In respect to me. It shall be as if I stood in the full blaze of light. God can see me still; he can mark my goings; he can perceive all that I do as plainly then as at mid-day. This "is" so: and what a thought this is for a wicked man who seeks to escape detection in his crimes by perpetrating them in the night! What a thought for a good man, that in the darkest night of sorrow, when there seems to be nothing but deep midnight, when there appears to be not a ray of light in his dwelling, or on his path that all to the eye of God is as clear as noon-day! For in that night of sorrow God sees him as plainly as in the brightest days of prosperity and joy.


 
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