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Psalms 139:12
Psalms 139:12 is verse 12 of Psalms chapter 139, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
King James Version
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
World English Bible
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
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Psalms 139:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12 even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
13 For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 14:20so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
Exodus 20:21And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
Daniel 2:22He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
Hebrews 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.