Psalms 130:6

But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

Yahweh 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.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh’s name! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes—I, Yahweh, have spoken it—

He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

He said to his servant, “Go up now, and look toward the sea.” He went up, and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” He said, “Go again” seven times.

My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”

When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.