Psalms 139:11

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup is found.”

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”

He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.” When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.