⁷ I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

⁶ The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

²⁴ Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

⁸ But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

³ You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.

¹⁷ The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

⁴ The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

²³ And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.

¹² And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.

⁹ In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

² And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

³ And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:

⁴ But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

¹⁴ Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

² O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

⁶ When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

²¹ My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

² In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

⁷ I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.

⁵⁵ I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

¹⁰ I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.