When I remember thee upon my bed, {and} meditate on thee in the {night} watches.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, thou {art} my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; {thirsty: Heb. weary} {where...: without water}

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. {at liberty: Heb. at large}

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. {to all: or, in all things}

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

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and {when} thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.