¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

¹¹ If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"

¹² Even the darkness doesn't hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

⁹ He encloses the face of his throne, And spreads his cloud on it.

²² There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

² Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

¹ > Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me.

² You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

²⁴ Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

² But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

³ Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.