Psalms 139:11

If I say, Surely the darkenes shall couer me: euen the night shall bee light about me.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,"
- New American Standard Version (1995)

If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
- American Standard Version (1901)

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
- Basic English Bible

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me"-
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
- Darby Bible

Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light about me shall be night;
- English Revised Version

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Psalms 139:11

139:9 The wings - If I should flee from east to west: for the sea being the western border of Canaan, is often put for the west in scripture. And wings are poetically ascribed to the morning here, as they are elsewhere to the sun, and to the winds.