<p class="poetry">They meet with darkness in the daytime,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and grope about<n id="2" /> in the noontime as if it were night.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sun will not harm you by day,p> <p class="poetry">or the moon by night.<n id="1" />p>

Now the <sc>Lordsc> was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light,<n id="1" /> so that they could<n id="2" /> travel day or night.<n id="3" />

<n id="1" /> And the cloud of the <sc>Lordsc> was over them by day, when they traveled<n id="2" /> from the camp.

<p class="poetry">He led them with a cloud by day,p> <p class="poetry">and with the light of a fire all night long.p>

<p class="poetry">You need not fear the terrors of the night,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the arrow that flies by day,p>

He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary<n id="1" /> and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard to protect against them<n id="1" /> both day and night.

<p class="poetry">In the dark the robber<n id="1" /> breaks into houses,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but by day they shut themselves in;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they do not know the light.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Instead<n id="1" /> he finds pleasure in obeying the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commands;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he meditates on<n id="3" /> his commands<n id="4" /> day and night.p>

<p class="poetry">My God, I cry out during the day,p> <p class="poetry">but you do not answer,p> <p class="poetry">and during the night my prayers do not let up.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For day and night you tormented me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you tried to destroy me<n id="2" /> in the intense heat<n id="3" /> of summer.<n id="4" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">By day the <sc>Lordsc> decrees his loyal love,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and by night he gives me a song,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a prayer<n id="3" /> to the living God.p>

<p class="poetry">Day and night they walk around on its walls,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">while wickedness and destruction<n id="2" /> are within it.p>

<p class="poetry">By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat,p> <p class="poetry">as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Kill all her soldiers!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them be slaughtered!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are doomed,<n id="3" /> for their day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time for them to be punished.&#8221;p>

Bring out your belongings packed for exile during the day while they are watching. And go out at evening, while they are watching, as if for exile.

<p class="poetry">I will ignite a fire in Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">Syene<n id="1" /> will writhe in agony,p> <p class="poetry">Thebes will be broken down,p> <p class="poetry">and Memphis will face enemies every day.p>

For the cloud of the <sc>Lordsc> was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be<n id="1" /> on it at night, in plain view<n id="2" /> of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.p>