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Psalms 42:8

Psalms 42:8 is verse 8 of Psalms chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Yahweh 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.

“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

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Psalms 42:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

8 The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

10 Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 44:4

You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

Psalms 133:3

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

Leviticus 25:21

But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

Deuteronomy 28:8

The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.

Matthew 8:8

The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Psalms 32:7

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Psalms 63:6

When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

Psalms 149:5

Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

Job 35:10

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

Isaiah 30:29

You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

Acts 16:25

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Psalms 27:1

The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— whom shall I dread?

Colossians 3:3

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

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