There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
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