I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
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לַיִל
H3915 · layil · lah'-yil · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage
(mid-)night (season).
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Mapped occurrences
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
<<A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.>> O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
<<A Song of degrees.>> Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.