'Night' in the Bible

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

So that light may take hold of the corners of the earthAnd shake the wickedness out of it?

Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

Would the wild ox be willing to serve you?Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

It lives on a cliff where it spends the night;its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,From men of the world [these moths of the night] whose portion [of enjoyment] is in this life—idle and vain,And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;They are satisfied with children,And they leave what they have left [of wealth] to their children.

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

I complain and groan morning, noon, and night,and He hears my voice.

At night they return like howling dogs; they prowl around the city.

At night they return like howling dogs; they prowl around the city.

They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

In the middle of the night I arise to thank you for your just regulations.

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

{A Song of degrees.} Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.

The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

The fear of the Lord leads to life;one will sleep at night without danger.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.

A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

The night watchmen found me -- the ones who guard the city walls. "Have you seen my beloved?"

They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

(The Bridegroom)“I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride;I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words].I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;I have drunk my wine with my milk.Eat, friends;Drink and drink deeply, O lovers.”

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Come, my love,let’s go to the field;let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Then they will look to the earth, they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness and overwhelming night.

The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

They crossed over at the ford, saying,“We will spend the night at Geba.”The people of Ramah are trembling;those at Gibeah of Saul have fled.

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Then the lookout reported,“Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day,and I stay at my post all night.

The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.

An oracle against Arabia:In the desert brushyou will camp for the night,you caravans of Dedanites.

The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

The desert creatures will meet with the wolves,The hairy goat also will cry to its kind;Yes, the night monster will settle thereAnd will find herself a resting place.

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from melike a shepherd’s tent.I have rolled up my life like a weaver;He cuts me off from the loom.You make an end of me from day until night.

I thought until the morning:He will break all my bones like a lion;You make an end of me day and night.

and if you offer yourself to the hungry,and satisfy the afflicted one,then your light will shine in the darkness,and your night will be like noonday.

Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness does not reach us.We hope for light, but there is darkness;for brightness, but we live in the night.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

"The sun will no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon shine on you by night for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pigs' meat, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My Name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed [visions when on my bed at night].’

Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones [grinding meal] and the light of the lamp [to light the night].