Psalms 16:7

David blesses the Lord who counsels him, even instructing his heart in the night. It matters because God guides his people inwardly and continually.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 50:4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
• Ps 63:6When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
• Ps 17:3Thou 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.
• Ps 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
• Ps 73:24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
• Ps 42:8Yet 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.
• Ps 119:55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
• Isa 26:9With 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.
• Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
• Isa 48:17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Jer 17:10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
• Prov 8:14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
• Ps 119:148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
• Ps 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
• Ps 119:7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
• Rev 2:23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
• Isa 11:2–4And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• Ps 22:2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
• Jer 12:2Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
• Ps 73:21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

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