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Jeremiah 23:24

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord,.... If a man should hide himself in the most secret and hidden places of the earth, and do his works in the most private manner, so that no human eye can see him, he cannot hide himself or his actions from the Lord, who can see from heaven to earth, and through the darkest and thickest clouds, and into the very bowels of the earth, and the most hidden and secret recesses and caverns of it.

The darkness and the light are both alike to him; and also near and distant, open and secret places:do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord; not only with inhabitants, and with other effects of his power and providence; but with his essence, which is everywhere, and is infinite and immense, and cannot be contained in either, or be limited and circumscribed by space and place; see 1Ki 8:27.

The Targum is,"does not my glory fill heaven and earth?

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