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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Asaph recalls his songs in the night and searches his heart with diligent questions.
Overview
The psalmist remembers times of joyful worship even in darkness and now examines his soul honestly. His diligent inquiry shows faith actively wrestling toward understanding. This searching introspection leads into the pressing questions about God's character that follow, modeling honest yet God-ward reflection in suffering.
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Cross-references · 11
- 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.
- 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.”
- Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
- Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- 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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