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Psa. 16:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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who hath.

Psa. 73:24• ²⁴Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and after the glory, thou wilt receive me. (Psa. 73:24)

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Psa. 119:7• ⁷I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. (Psa. 119:7)

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Prov. 8:14• ¹⁴Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength. (Prov. 8:14)

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Isa. 11:2‑4• ²and the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.
³And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;
⁴but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. (Isa. 11:2‑4)

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Isa. 48:17• ¹⁷Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee for thy profit, who leadeth thee in the way that thou shouldest go. (Isa. 48:17)

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Isa. 50:4• ⁴The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed. (Isa. 50:4)

my reins.

Psa. 73:21• ²¹When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins, (Psa. 73:21)

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Jer. 12:2• ²Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. (Jer. 12:2)

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Jer. 17:10• ¹⁰I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. (Jer. 17:10)

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Rev. 2:23• ²³and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that *I* am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:23)

in the.

Psa. 17:3• ³Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word. (Psa. 17:3)

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Psa. 22:2• ²My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me: (Psa. 22:2)

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Psa. 42:8• ⁸In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the *God of my life. (Psa. 42:8)

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Psa. 63:6• ⁶When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches: (Psa. 63:6)

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Psa. 77:2,6• ²In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
⁶I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search. (Psa. 77:2,6)

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Psa. 119:55,148• ⁵⁵I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, and have kept thy law.
¹⁴⁸Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy *word. (Psa. 119:55,148)

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Isa. 26:9• ⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. (Isa. 26:9)

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Luke 6:12• ¹²And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. (Luke 6:12)

• “I will bless Jehovah who giveth me counsel.” We need in divine life the positive instruction of wisdom—counsel; wisdom, a divine clue and direction in the confusion of evil in this world—to be wise concerning that which is good. Not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time; not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Jehovah gives counsel. So if any man lacks wisdom let him ask of God. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 16” by J.N. Darby)

• So Moses asks not, “Show me a way across the desert,” but “Show me thy way that I may know thee, and that I may find grace in thy sight.” What Moses sought Jehovah gives—the counsel and guidance of His love. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 16” by J.N. Darby)

• “Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel,” says even the remnant of Israel; and, Psalm 32., “I will guide thee by mine eye.” I repeat, He is interested in the guidance of the man of God, and the soul blesses Him. In this path Christ trod. The written word is the great means of this; still there is the direct action of God in us by His Spirit. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 16” by J.N. Darby)

• There is also divine intelligence. “My reins instruct me in the night season.” The divine life is intelligent life. I do not separate this from divine grace in us, but it is different from counsel given. We can be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Col. 1:9, kO. “Why even of yourselves (says the Lord to the Pharisees) judge ye not that which is right?” Thus, when removed from external influences, the secret workings and thoughts of the heart show what is suited to the path and way of God in the world. A man is spiritually minded and discerns all things. It is the working of life within (in us through grace) on divine things, and in the perception of the divine path, what is well pleasing....It may seem folly, but if found in humbly waiting on God will in the end prove His wisdom. It can always be discerned from an exalted imagination. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 16” by J.N. Darby)

• Christ, in the path that leads to the inheritance, could bless Jehovah for His counsel. Instructed by the counsel of Jehovah, His own inmost thoughts gave Him light and instruction. (“Psalms 16” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I will bless Jehovah, who giveth me counsel; even in the nights my reins instruct me.