I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.
A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.
In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.
<A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.
The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.
The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.
<A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,
To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;
And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.
And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.
And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.
And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):
And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.
This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.
And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.
As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.
I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.
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