Psalms 42:8

In the day I cry to the Lord to summon his kindness; and the song that I sing in the night is a prayer to the living God.

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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

7Flood is calling to flood at the noise of your cataracts; all your waves and your breakers have passed over me.

9I say to God my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?”

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Cross References

Psalms 27:1The Lord is my light and my savior; whom then should I fear? The Lord protects my life; whom then should I dread?

Psalms 44:4It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob.

Psalms 63:6I call you to mind on my bed, and muse on you in the night watches;

Psalms 88:8You have put my friends far from me, you have made them shun me. I am shut in, and cannot escape,

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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