'Day' in the Bible

Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,and he meditates on it day and night.

God is a righteous judgeand a God who shows His wrath every day.

How long will I store up anxious concerns within me,agony in my mind every day?How long will my enemy dominate me?

They confronted me in the day of my distress,but the Lord was my support.

Day after day they pour out speech;night after night they communicate knowledge.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.May Yahweh answer you in a day of trouble;may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

Lord, give victory to the king!May He answer us on the day that we call.

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,by night, yet I have no rest.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,for You are the God of my salvation;I wait for You all day long.

For He will conceal me in His shelterin the day of adversity;He will hide me under the cover of His tent;He will set me high on a rock.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittlefrom my groaning all day long.

For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;my strength was drainedas in the summer’s heat.Selah

And my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness,Your praise all day long.

The Lord laughs at himbecause He sees that his day is coming.

I am bent over and brought low;all day long I go around in mourning.

Those who seek my life set traps,and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;they plot treachery all day long.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Happy is one who cares for the poor;the Lord will save him in a day of adversity.

My tears have been my food day and night,while all day long people say to me,“Where is your God?”

The Lord will send His faithful love by day;His song will be with me in the night—a prayer to the God of my life.

My adversaries taunt me,as if crushing my bones,while all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

We boast in God all day long;we will praise Your name forever.Selah

My disgrace is before me all day long,and shame has covered my face,

Because of You we are slain all day long;we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

Call on Me in a day of trouble;I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

day and night they make the rounds on its walls.Crime and trouble are within it;

For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.” A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;he fights and oppresses me all day long.

My adversaries trample me all day,for many arrogantly fight against me.

They twist my words all day long;all their thoughts against me are evil.

Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call.This I know: God is for me.

But I will sing of Your strengthand will joyfully proclaimYour faithful love in the morning.For You have been a stronghold for me,a refuge in my day of trouble.

Then I will continually sing of Your name,fulfilling my vows day by day.

May the Lord be praised!Day after day He bears our burdens;God is our salvation.Selah

My mouth is full of praiseand honor to You all day long.

My mouth will tell about Your righteousnessand Your salvation all day long,though I cannot sum them up.

Therefore, my tongue will proclaimYour righteousness all day long,for those who seek my harmwill be disgraced and confounded.

May he live long!May gold from Sheba be given to him.May prayer be offered for him continually,and may he be blessed all day long.

For I am afflicted all day longand punished every morning.

The day is Yours, also the night;You established the moon and the sun.

Rise up, God, defend Your cause!Remember the insultsthat fools bring against You all day long.

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.My hands were continually lifted upall night long;I refused to be comforted.

The Ephraimite archers turned backon the day of battle.

He led them with a cloud by dayand with a fiery light throughout the night.

They did not remember His power shownon the day He redeemed them from the foe,

Blow the horn on the day of our feastsduring the new moonand during the full moon.

Better a day in Your courtsthan a thousand anywhere else.I would rather be at the door of the house of my Godthan to live in the tents of wicked people.

Be gracious to me, Lord,for I call to You all day long.

I call on You in the day of my distress,for You will answer me.

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.Lord, God of my salvation,I cry out before You day and night.

My eyes are worn out from crying.Lord, I cry out to You all day long;I spread out my hands to You.

They surround me like water all day long;they close in on me from every side.

They rejoice in Your name all day long,and they are exalted by Your righteousness.

You will not fear the terror of the night,the arrow that flies by day,

Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,as on that day at Massah in the wilderness

Sing to Yahweh, praise His name;proclaim His salvation from day to day.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of trouble.Listen closely to me;answer me quickly when I call.

My enemies taunt me all day long;they ridicule and curse me.

Your people will volunteeron Your day of battle.In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

The Lord is at Your right hand;He will crush kings on the day of His anger.

This is the day the Lord has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.

מ MemHow I love Your instruction!It is my meditation all day long.

I praise You seven times a dayfor Your righteous judgments.

The sun will not strike you by dayor the moon by night.

the sun to rule by day,        His love is eternal.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites saidthat day at Jerusalem:“Destroy it! Destroy itdown to its foundations!”

On the day I called, You answered me;You increased strength within me.

even the darkness is not dark to You.The night shines like the day;darkness and light are alike to You.

who plan evil in their hearts.They stir up wars all day long.

Lord God, my strong Savior,You shield my head on the day of battle.

I will praise You every day;I will honor Your name forever and ever.

When his breath leaves him,he returns to the ground;on that day his plans die.