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


In Context

5 What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance — My God!

6 In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

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

9 I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

10 With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Psalm 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to 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 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.