Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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.

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.