Lexicon :: Strong's H3119 - yômām

The LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night.

For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.

“You must remain at the entrance to the tent of meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I was commanded.”

Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning; when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out. Or if it remained a day and a night, they moved out when the cloud lifted.

Meanwhile, the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

“They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among these people, how you, LORD, are seen face to face, how your cloud stands over them, and how you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

“who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

“Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival.

“This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to meditate on[fn] it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.

So Gideon took ten of his male servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s family and the men of the city to do it in the daytime, he did it at night.

“They were a wall around us, both day and night, the entire time we were with them herding the sheep.

Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest[fn] until the rain poured down from heaven on the bodies. She kept the birds of the sky from them by day and the wild animals by night.

“May my words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near the LORD our God day and night. May he uphold his servant’s cause and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.

The singers, the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.

so that your eyes watch over this temple

day and night,

toward the place where you said

you would put your name;

and so that you may hear the prayer

your servant prays toward this place.

let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[fn] we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day,

and with a pillar of fire by night,

to illuminate the way they should go.

you did not abandon them in the wilderness

because of your great compassion.

During the day the pillar of cloud

never turned away from them,

guiding them on their journey.

And during the night the pillar of fire

illuminated the way they should go.

They encounter darkness by day,

and they grope at noon

as if it were night.

In the dark they break[fn] into houses;

by day they lock themselves in,[fn]

never experiencing the light.

Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction,

and he meditates on it day and night.

How long will I store up anxious concerns[fn] within me,

agony in my mind every day?

How long will my enemy dominate me?

My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,

by night, yet I have no rest.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me;

my strength was drained[fn]

as in the summer’s heat.Selah

My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

The LORD will send his faithful love by day;

his song will be with me in the night —

a prayer to the God of my life.

day and night they make the rounds on its walls.

Crime and trouble are within it;

He led them with a cloud by day

and with a fiery light throughout the night.

You will not fear the terror of the night,

the arrow that flies by day,

The sun will not strike you by day

or the moon by night.

Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,[fn]

Then the lookout[fn] reported,

“Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day,

and I stay at my post all night.

It will never go out ​— ​day or night.

Its smoke will go up forever.

It will be desolate, from generation to generation;

no one will pass through it forever and ever.

Your city gates will always be open;

they will never be shut day or night

so that the wealth of the nations

may be brought into you,

with their kings being led in procession.

The sun will no longer be your light by day,

and the brightness of the moon will not shine on you.

The LORD will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your splendor.

If my head were a flowing spring,

my eyes a fountain of tears,

I would weep day and night

over the slain of my dear[fn] people.

You are to speak this word to them:

Let my eyes overflow with tears;

day and night may they not stop,

for my dearest people[fn]

have been destroyed by a crushing blow,

an extremely severe wound.

“The mother of seven grew faint;

she breathed her last breath.

Her sun set while it was still day;

she was ashamed and humiliated.

The rest of them I will give over to the sword

in the presence of their enemies.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.

“So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your ancestors have not known. There you will worship other gods both day and night, for I will not grant you grace.’[fn]

“This is what the LORD says:

The one who gives the sun for light by day,

the fixed order of moon and stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea and makes its waves roar —

the LORD of Armies is his name:

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,

“This is what the LORD says: If I do not keep my covenant with the day and with the night, and if I fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth,

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.

Wall of Daughter Zion,

let your tears run down like a river

day and night.

Give yourself no relief

and your[fn] eyes no rest.

“Now you, son of man, get your bags ready for exile and go into exile in their sight during the day. You will go into exile from your place to another place while they watch; perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

So I did just as I was commanded. In the daytime I brought out my bags like an exile’s bags. In the evening I dug through the wall by hand; I took them out in the dark, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.

“I will set fire to Egypt;

Pelusium will writhe in anguish,

Thebes will be breached,

and Memphis will face foes in broad daylight.[fn]