Psalms 42:8

The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

World English Bible

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 calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:8The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Psalms 27:1The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalms 44:4God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob!

Psalms 63:6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

Psalms 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t 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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