I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.
when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.
I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:
And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
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