Parallel Verses
Amplified
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.
New American Standard Bible
That I may
King James Version
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Holman Bible
to meditate on Your promise.
International Standard Version
I look forward to the night watches, when I may meditate on what you have said.
A Conservative Version
My eyes anticipated the night-watches that I might meditate on thy word.
American Standard Version
Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
Bible in Basic English
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
Darby Translation
Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy word.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eyes anticipated the watches to meditate in thy word.
King James 2000
My eyes awake before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes anticipate [the] night watches, that [I may] meditate on your word.
Modern King James verseion
My eyes go before the night watches, so that I might think on Your Word.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might be occupied in thy words.
NET Bible
My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.
New Heart English Bible
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
The Emphasized Bible
Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, To meditate in thy word.
Webster
My eyes anticipated the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
World English Bible
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:148
Verse Info
Context Readings
Qoph
147
I rise before dawn and cry [in prayer] for help;
I wait for Your word.
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.
Hear my voice according to Your [steadfast] lovingkindness;
O Lord, renew and refresh me according to Your ordinances.
Cross References
Psalm 63:6
When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,
Psalm 63:1
My
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous ordinances.
Psalm 139:17-18
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Lamentations 2:19
“Arise, cry aloud in the night,
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint from hunger
At the head of every street.”
Luke 6:12
Now at this time Jesus went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.