“If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.”
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night. The hypothetical speech suggests attempting to hide through darkness; the psalmist imagines that darkness might provide concealment from divine knowledge. The transformation of light into night represents the most complete possible obscuration. The conditional phrasing (If I say) suggests that such hope is futile. This verse imagines darkness as potential refuge; the following verse will refute this notion.
Church Fathers on Psalms 139:11
1. ...Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks in the Prophets, sometimes in His own Name, sometimes in ours, because He makes Himself one with us; as it is said, “they two shall be one flesh.” Wherefore also the Lord says in the Gospel, speaking of marriage, “therefore they are no more two, but one flesh.” One flesh, because of our mortality He took flesh; not one divinity, for He is the Creator, we the creature. Whatsoever then our Lord speaks in the person of the Flesh He took upon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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