Isaiah 26:9
Good News Translation
At night I long for you with all my heart; when you judge the earth and its people, they will all learn what justice is.

New Revised Standard Version
My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
Throughout the night, my heart searches for you, because your decisions show everyone on this earth how to live right.

New American Bible
My soul yearns for you at night, yes, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn; When your judgment comes upon the earth, the world’s inhabitants learn justice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

have I

Psalm 63:6,7 If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning: . . .

Psalm 77:2,3 In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted: . . .

Psalm 119:62 I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.

Psalm 130:6 From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Songs 3:1-4 In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not. . . .

Songs 5:2-8 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights. . . .

Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

my spirit

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Proverbs 8:17 With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mark 1:35 And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

for

Isaiah 27:9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

Numbers 14:21-23 As I live: and the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 68:11 The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power.

Psalm 64:9 And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings.

Psalm 83:18 And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.

Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Revelation 11:13 And at that hour there was made a great earthquake: and the tenth part of the city fell. And there were slain in the earthquake, names of men, seven thousand: and the rest were cast into a fear and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
8And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul. 9My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.10Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:33
Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

Psalm 63:1
A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Psalm 63:5
Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.

Psalm 63:6
If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:

Psalm 77:2
In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted:

Psalm 78:34
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

Psalm 105:7
He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

Psalm 119:55
In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.

Psalm 119:62
I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.

Isaiah 50:10
Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.

Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Lamentations 2:19
Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

Lamentations 3:25
Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Ezekiel 5:15
And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.

Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

Isaiah 26:8
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