I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
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