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Psalm 5:3

LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

1For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David. Give ear to my words, LORD. Consider my meditation.
2Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.
3LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
4For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.
5The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
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Morning comes twice in David’s prayer, marking a time to speak to God and to watch with hope before any answer is described.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.Both prayers begin around daybreak and join a cry to God with hope, expressed as watching in Psalm 5 and trusting God’s words in Psalm 119.
Psalm 88:13But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.Both speakers bring their prayers before the LORD in the morning, addressing him amid cries for his attention.
Psalm 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.Both passages describe expectation directed toward God, with morning marking David’s prayer and the watchmen’s longing.
Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.Morning is a time for prayer in both passages; Mark adds the darkness and the deserted place where Jesus prays.
Psalm 55:17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.Both prayers express confidence that God will hear the speaker’s voice, and both name morning as a time to cry out.
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 is a time of attention to God in both passages, through spoken requests in the psalm and an awakened ear in Isaiah.
Isaiah 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are on the earth, the …Both speakers direct their desire toward God at a named time, morning in the psalm and night in Isaiah.
Habakkuk 2:1I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.David watches after presenting his requests, and Habakkuk takes his watch to look for what God will say concerning his complaint.
Genesis 19:27Abraham went up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.Morning marks both David’s prayer before the LORD and Abraham’s return to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
1 Samuel 1:19They rose up in the morning early and worshiped the LORD, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD …Both passages place devotion to the LORD in the morning, through David’s requests and the worship described before the return to Ramah.
Exodus 36:3They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They …The shared detail is a morning practice: David brings requests, while Israel brings offerings for the sanctuary’s work.
Exodus 29:39The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;Both texts name morning as a time to approach God, with requests in the psalm and a lamb offering in Exodus.
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Something small to carry out of this verse

Speak one written request to God each morning

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Encouragement

David trusts that God will hear his voice, though no answer is recorded here. Your requests can be spoken while the outcome remains unknown; God hears prayer.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).