⁶ If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.

⁸ By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song `is' with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

⁴ Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

⁵ I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages.

⁶ I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently:

⁵⁵ I have remembered in the night Thy name, O Jehovah, And I do keep Thy law.

¹⁴⁷ I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

¹⁷ And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!

¹⁸ I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

⁵ Exult do saints in honour, They sing aloud on their beds.

¹ On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

² -- Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! -- I sought him, and I found him not.

² I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'

¹⁹ Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.