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

⁸ But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

⁴ You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

⁵ My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

⁶ The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

⁵⁵ I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

¹⁴⁷ Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.

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

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.

⁵ Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.

¹ By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

² I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

² I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

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.