I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.
when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.
When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
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