Psalm 139:12 {138:12}
Good News Translation
but even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

New Revised Standard Version
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.

Contemporary English Version
But you see in the dark because daylight and dark are all the same to you.

New American Bible
Darkness is not dark for you, and night shines as the day. Darkness and light are but one.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the darkness

Exodus 14:20 Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night.

Exodus 20:21 And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.

Job 26:6 Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

Job 34:22 There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

Daniel 2:22 He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

hideth not.

Context
You Have Searched Me and Known Me
11And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures. 12But 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.13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.…
Cross References
1 John 1:5
And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.

Job 34:22
There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

Psalm 19:2
Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge.

Daniel 2:22
He revealeth deep and hidden things, and knoweth what is in darkness: and light is with him.

Psalm 139:11
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