Jehovah will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, my prayer to the Mighty God of my life.

But no one says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Though the fig tree shall not blossom, and fruit is not on the vines; the work of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food; the flock is cut off from the fold, and no herd is in the stalls,

yet I will exult in Jehovah; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it; for their evil has come up before Me.

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

Tremble, and sin not; commune within your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

I spoke within my own heart, saying, Lo, I have become great and have gathered more wisdom than all who have been before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart has seen much of wisdom and knowledge.

Search me, O Mighty God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties;

and find out if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way eternal.

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

Let us search out and examine our ways, and return to Jehovah.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many have been put to death.

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