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 Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
• Ps 63:6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
• Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
• Ps 77:6I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
• Ps 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
• Ps 42:8Yahweh 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.
• Ps 119:55I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
• Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
• Luke 6:12In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
• Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
• Jer 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
• Prov 8:14Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
• Ps 119:148My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
• Ps 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
• Ps 119:7I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
• Rev 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• Isa 11:2–4Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• Ps 22:2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
• Jer 12:2You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
• Ps 73:21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

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