⁶ When I remember you on my bed, And think about you in the night watches.

⁸ Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

⁵ I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

⁶ I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; My spirit diligently inquires:

⁵⁵ I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, And I obey your law.

¹⁴⁷ I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

¹⁴⁸ My eyes stay open through the night watches, That I might meditate on your word.

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

⁵ Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

¹ By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

² I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

² I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My hair with the dampness of the night.

¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.