8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to the God of my life.


In Context

5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and

6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon-from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

8 By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"

10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Psalms 42:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:8[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:8In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:8Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:8In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, even a prayer unto the God of my life.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:8Yet the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:8Yahweh 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:8By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:8Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.