'Day' in the Bible

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.

I was a skilled craftsman beside Him.I was His delight every day,always rejoicing before Him.

Anyone who listens to me is happy,watching at my doors every day,waiting by the posts of my doorway.

Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath,but righteousness rescues from death.

The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

He is filled with craving all day long,but the righteous give and don’t hold back.

A horse is prepared for the day of battle,but victory comes from the Lord. >

To those who send him, a trustworthy messengeris like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;he refreshes the life of his masters.

Singing songs to a troubled heartis like taking off clothing on a cold dayor like pouring vinegar on soda.

Don’t boast about tomorrow,for you don’t know what a day might bring.

An endless dripping on a rainy dayand a nagging wife are alike.

A good name is better than fine perfume,and the day of one’s death than the day of one’s birth.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

on the day when the guardians of the house tremble,and the strong men stoop,the women who grind cease because they are few,and the ones who watch through the windows see dimly,

Come out, young women of Zion,and gaze at King Solomon,wearing the crown his mother placed on himthe day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing. >

B Our sister is young;she has no breasts.What will we do for our sisteron the day she is spoken for?

Human pride will be humbled,and the loftiness of men will be brought low;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is comingagainst all that is proud and lofty,against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—

So human pride will be brought low,and the loftiness of men will be humbled;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

On that day people will throwtheir silver and gold idols,which they made to worship,to the moles and the bats.

On that day he will cry out, saying:“I’m not a healer.I don’t even have food or clothing in my house.Don’t make me the leader of the people!”

On that day the Lord will strip their finery: ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents,

On that day seven womenwill seize one man, saying,“We will eat our own breadand provide our own clothing.Just let us be called by your name.Take away our disgrace.”

On that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Then the Lord will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,

and there will be a booth for shade from heat by day, and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

On that day they will roar over it,like the roaring of the sea.When one looks at the land,there will be darkness and distress;light will be obscured by clouds.

On that daythe Lord will whistle to the flythat is at the farthest streams of the Nileand to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.

On that daya man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

And on that dayevery place where there were 1,000 vines,worth 1,000 pieces of silver,will become thorns and briers.

For You have shattered their oppressive yokeand the rod on their shoulders,the staff of their oppressor,just as You did on the day of Midian.

So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail,palm branch and reed in a single day.

What will you do on the day of punishmentwhen devastation comes from far away?Who will you run to for help?Where will you leave your wealth?

Israel’s Light will become a fire,and its Holy One, a flame.In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

On that dayhis burden will fall from your shoulders,and his yoke from your neck.The yoke will be broken because of fatness.

On that day the root of Jessewill stand as a banner for the peoples.The nations will seek Him,and His resting place will be glorious.

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover—from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west—the remnant of His people who survive.

On that day you will say:“I will praise You, Lord,although You were angry with me.Your anger has turned away,and You have had compassion on me.

and on that day you will say:“Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim His name!Celebrate His works among the peoples.Declare that His name is exalted.

Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Look, the day of the Lord is coming—cruel, with rage and burning anger—to make the earth a desolationand to destroy the sinners on it.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,and the earth will shake from its foundationsat the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,on the day of His burning anger.

On that daythe splendor of Jacob will fade,and his healthy body will become emaciated.

On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

On that day their strong cities will belike the abandoned woods and mountaintopsthat were abandoned because of the Israelites;there will be desolation.

On the day that you plant,you will help them to grow,and in the morningyou will help your seed to sprout,but the harvest will vanishon the day of disease and incurable pain.

On that day Egypt will be like women. She will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Hosts when He raises it against her.

On that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to the Lord of Hosts. One of the cities will be called the City of the Sun.

On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.

The Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the Lord on that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.

On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. Assyria will go to Egypt, Egypt to Assyria, and Egypt will worship with Assyria.

On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing within the land.