11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”(A)
12 even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to you.(B)

13 For it was you who created my inward parts;[a]
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 139:13 Lit my kidneys

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark(A) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;(B)
    you knit me together(C) in my mother’s womb.(D)

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