By day the Lord will command His mercy, and manifest [it] by night; with me [is] prayer to the God of my life.

But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night watches;

For though the fig tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in God my Savior.

Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness has come up before Me.

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

Be angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what you say in your hearts. Pause.

I spoke in my heart, saying, Behold, I have attained, and acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.

Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;

and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore have You thus judged me?

NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

But let a man examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and drink from the cup.

Because of this many among you are weak and sick, and many have died.

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we may not be condemned with the world.