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Psalm 143:8

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
7Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
9Deliver me, LORD, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
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The plea for morning kindness speaks to the need for reassurance when you trust God and still cannot see the way to walk.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 25:4–5Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.Both prayers ask God to show the way, expressing dependence on him for direction.
Proverbs 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.Both texts place trust in the LORD at the heart of seeking direction beyond your own understanding.
Psalm 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.Psalm 143 asks to know the way to walk; Psalm 32 speaks of instruction and counsel for the way ahead.
Isaiah 48:17The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.Both passages look to God for the way a person should go, with Isaiah naming him as teacher and guide.
Isaiah 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”Hearing and walking appear in both passages, linking an attentive ear with the need to know the way.
Psalm 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.The request to know the way continues as a prayer to learn God's will and be led in uprightness.
Lamentations 3:41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.Both passages describe turning toward God by lifting the inner life to him, whether soul or heart.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he …Morning and hearing link these passages: the psalm seeks God's kindness, while Isaiah describes an ear awakened to learn.
Genesis 32:24–29Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.The coming of day is their narrow connection: Jacob wrestles until daybreak, while the psalm seeks kindness in the morning.
Hosea 6:3Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the …Both passages connect morning with looking toward the LORD, expressing trust as they seek to hear or know him.
Exodus 18:20You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.Both passages speak of knowing the way to walk, with Exodus assigning the task of teaching that way.
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The speaker trusts God while still asking to hear his kindness. Faith here has room for urgent need and a path that remains unknown.

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