⁶ I remembered my songs in the night.
    My heart meditated and my spirit asked:

⁸ By day the Lord directs his love,^(A)
    at night^(B) his song^(C) is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.^(D)

⁴ Tremble and^[a] do not sin;^(A)
    when you are on your beds,^(B)
    search your hearts and be silent.

²³ Search me,^(A) God, and know my heart;^(B)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way^(C) in me,
    and lead me^(D) in the way everlasting.

⁴⁰ Let us examine our ways and test them,^(A)
    and let us return to the Lord.^(B)

¹⁰ But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,^(A)
    who gives songs^(B) in the night,^(C)