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" />

<p class="poetry">If I were to say, &#8220;Certainly the darkness will cover me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the light will turn to night all around me,&#8221;<n id="2" />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">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">Day after day it speaks out;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">night after night it reveals his greatness.<n id="2" />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">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">even the darkness is not too dark for you to see,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the night is as bright as<n id="2" /> day;p> <p class="poetry">darkness and light are the same to you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;While the earth continues to exist,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">planting time<n id="2" /> and harvest,p> <p class="poetry">cold and heat,p> <p class="poetry">summer and winter,p> <p class="poetry">and day and night will not cease.&#8221;p>

You must reside at the entrance of the Meeting Tent day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the <sc>Lordsc> so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.&#8221;

And when<n id="1" /> the cloud remained only<n id="2" /> from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up<n id="3" /> the following morning, then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up they traveled.

<p class="poetry">I cannot eat, I weep day and night;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all day long they say to me,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Your gates will remain open at all times;p> <p class="poetry">they will not be shut during the day or at night,p> <p class="poetry">so that the wealth of nations may be delivered,p> <p class="poetry">with their kings leading the way.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry"><v id="(8:23)" /><n id="1" /> I wish that my head were a well full of water<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!p> <p class="poetry">If they were, I could cry day and nightp> <p class="poetry">for those of my dear people<n id="3" /> who have been killed.p>

&#8220;I, <sc>Lordsc>, make the following promise:<n id="1" /> &#8216;I have made a covenant with the day<n id="2" /> and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people<n id="3" /> could break that covenant

But I, the <sc>Lordsc>, make the following promise:<n id="1" /> I have made a covenant governing the coming of day and night. I have established the fixed laws governing heaven and earth.

This law scroll must not leave your lips!<n id="1" /> You must memorize it<n id="2" /> day and night so you can carefully obey<n id="3" /> all that is written in it. Then you will prosper<n id="4" /> and be successful.<n id="5" />

May the <sc>Lordsc> our God be constantly aware of these requests of mine I have presented to him,<n id="1" /> so that he might vindicate<n id="2" /> his servant and his people Israel as the need arises.