My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.
when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
“Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.”
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.
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