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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 139:11 Catholic Bible: I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night, </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/psalms/139-11.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/psalms/139-11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/139-11.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/1.htm">Psalms</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/139.htm">Chapter 139</a> > Verse 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/139-10.htm" title="Psalm 139:10">◄</a> Psalm 139:11 {138:11} <a href="../psalms/139-12.htm" title="Psalm 139:12">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/psalms/139.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/psalms/139.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/139.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/psalms/139.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Or suppose I said, "I'll hide in the dark until night comes to cover me over." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/139.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />If I say, “Surely darkness shall hide me, and night shall be my light” — <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/psalms/139.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.</p><p class="hdg">surely</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/10-11.htm">Psalm 10:11-13</a> For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/94-7.htm">Psalm 94:7</a> And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/22-12.htm">Job 22:12-14</a> Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/29-15.htm">Isaiah 29:15</a> Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/23-24.htm">Jeremiah 23:24</a> Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?</p><p class="hdg">even the night</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/12-22.htm">Job 12:22</a> He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/psalms/139.htm">You Have Searched Me and Known Me</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl">And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.</span><span class="reftext">12</span>But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/22-13.htm">Job 22:13</a></span><br />And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/34-22.htm">Job 34:22</a></span><br />There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/72-4.htm">Bruiseth</a> <a href="/psalms/109-29.htm">Cover</a> <a href="/psalms/124-4.htm">Covered</a> <a href="/psalms/112-4.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/psalms/112-4.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/psalms/119-19.htm">Hide</a> <a href="/psalms/119-130.htm">Light</a> <a href="/psalms/136-9.htm">Night</a> <a href="/psalms/88-7.htm">Overwhelm</a> <a href="/psalms/132-3.htm">Surely</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/9-17.htm">Bruiseth</a> <a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">Cover</a> <a href="/psalms/139-13.htm">Covered</a> <a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">Hide</a> <a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">Light</a> <a href="/psalms/139-12.htm">Night</a> <a href="/psalms/140-9.htm">Overwhelm</a> <a href="/psalms/139-19.htm">Surely</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and around be become darkness hide I If light me night overwhelm say Surely the will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/psalms/139-11.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 139:11 If I say Surely the darkness will (Psalm Ps Psa.) 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