¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

⁶ When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

¹⁹ Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

⁶² In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

¹⁷ How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

¹⁸ If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

¹² And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.