Jeremiah 23:24
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24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.(A)
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Proverbs 15:3
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3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
keeping watch on the evil and the good.(A)
Psalm 90:8
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8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.(A)
Isaiah 29:15
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15 Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord,
whose deeds are in the dark,
and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”(A)
Psalm 139:7
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7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?(A)
1 Kings 8:27
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27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!(A)
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Amos 9:2-3
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2 Though they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.(A)
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
from there I will search out and take them;
and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.(B)
Isaiah 66:1
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The Worship God Demands
66 Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
so what kind of house could you build for me,
what sort of place for me to rest?(A)
Psalm 139:11-16
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11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and night wraps itself around me,”[a](A)
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.(B)
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(C)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(D)
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(E)
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.[b]
Psalm 10:11
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11 They think in their heart, “God has forgotten;
he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”(A)
Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)
Job 22:13-14
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13 Therefore you say, ‘What does God know?
Can he judge through the deep darkness?(A)
14 Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see,
and he walks on the dome of heaven.’
2 Chronicles 6:18
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18 “But will God indeed dwell with mortals on earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!(A)
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Genesis 16:13
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13 So she named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are El-roi,”[a] for she said, “Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?”[b](A)
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Ephesians 1:23
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23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.(A)
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Daniel 4:35
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35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”(A)
Ezekiel 9:9
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9 He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of perversity, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’(A)
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Ezekiel 8:12
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12 Then he said to me, “Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”
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Jeremiah 49:10
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10 But as for me, I have stripped Esau bare;
I have uncovered his hiding places,
and he is not able to conceal himself.
His offspring are destroyed, his kinsfolk
and his neighbors, and he is no more.(A)
Psalm 148:13
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13 Let them praise the name of the Lord,
for his name alone is exalted;
his glory is above earth and heaven.(A)
Job 24:13-16
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13 “There are those who rebel against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways
and do not stay in its paths.(A)
14 The murderer rises at dusk
to kill the poor and needy
and in the night is like a thief.(B)
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he disguises his face.(C)
16 In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.(D)
2 Chronicles 2:6
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6 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him except as a place to make offerings before him?(A)
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