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11 Suppose I wanted to hide from you and said,
    “Surely the darkness will hide me.
    The day will change to night and cover me.”
12 Even the darkness is not dark to you.
    The night is as bright as the day.
    Darkness and light are the same.
13 You formed the way I think and feel.[a]
    You put me together in my mother’s womb.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 139:13 the way I think and feel Literally, “my kidneys,” which were thought to be the center of emotions.

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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