But I have stripped Esau's descendants completely and uncovered their hiding places, so that they can no longer hide. All the people of Edom are destroyed. Not one of them is left.

Hagar asked herself, "Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?" So she called the LORD, who had spoken to her, "A God Who Sees."

And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds---how can he judge us?"

You think the thick clouds keep him from seeing, as he walks on the dome of the sky.

There are those who reject the light; they don't understand it or go where it leads.

The adulterer waits for twilight to come; he covers his face so that no one can see him.

The wicked say to themselves, "God doesn't care! He has closed his eyes and will never see me!"

You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.

Where could I go to escape from you? Where could I get away from your presence?

I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night,

You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother's womb.

When my bones were being formed, carefully put together in my mother's womb, when I was growing there in secret, you knew that I was there---

The LORD sees what happens everywhere; he is watching us, whether we do good or evil.

Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing.

God asked me, "Mortal man, do you see what the Israelite leaders are doing in secret? They are all worshiping in a room full of images. Their excuse is: 'The LORD doesn't see us! He has abandoned the country.' "

God answered, "The people of Israel and Judah are guilty of terrible sins. They have committed murder all over the land and have filled Jerusalem with crime. They say that I, the LORD, have abandoned their country and that I don't see them.

Even if they dig their way down to the world of the dead, I will catch them. Even if they climb up to heaven, I will bring them down.

If they hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I will search for them and catch them. If they hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will command the sea monster to bite them.

"But can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough?

Yet no one can really build a temple for God, because even all the vastness of heaven cannot contain him. How then can I build a temple that would be anything more than a place to burn incense to God?

"But can you, O God, really live on earth among men and women? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough?

Let them all praise the name of the LORD! His name is greater than all others; his glory is above earth and heaven.

"I am the high and holy God, who lives forever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.

The LORD says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house, then, could you build for me, what kind of place for me to live in?

He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on earth are under his control. No one can oppose his will or question what he does.

The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.