I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
Parallel translations
- KJV I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
- BSB At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
- NKJV I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, And my spirit makes diligent search.
- NASB I will remember my song in the night; I will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:
- NLT when my nights were filled with joyful songs. I search my soul and ponder the difference now.
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- 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 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
- Ps 139:23–24Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
- Lam 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
- Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
- Eccl 1:16I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
- Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- Jonah 1:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
- 1 Cor 11:28–32But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
- Hab 3:17–18For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
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