¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

¹⁹ 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.

¹ 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;

⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

¹⁷ How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

¹² 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.