Psalms 42:8

By day YHWH commands His kindness, || And by night a song [is] with me, || A prayer to the God of my life.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

In Context

7Deep is calling to deep || At the noise of Your waterspouts, || All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.

9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the oppression of an enemy?”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:8YHWH commands the blessing with you in your storehouses, and in every putting forth of your hand, and has blessed you in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you.

Job 35:10And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,

Psalms 27:1BY DAVID. YHWH [is] my light and my salvation, || Whom do I fear? YHWH [is] the strength of my life, || Of whom am I afraid?

Psalms 44:4You [are] He, my King, O God, || Command the deliverances of Jacob.

Psalms 63:6If I have remembered You on my bed, || I meditate on You in the watches.

Psalms 88:8You have put my acquaintance far from me, || You have made me an abomination to them, || Shut up—I do not go forth.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 42:7-11

Complaints and Consolations. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the… Read the whole commentary →

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