Psalms 63:6

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

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.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

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

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates 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.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

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.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

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 the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

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.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

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.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

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

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

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

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

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

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.

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

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

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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

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.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

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