Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
My eyes anticipated the night-watches that I might meditate on thy 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.
American Standard Version
Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
Amplified
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your 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
Cross References
Psalm 63:6
when I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the night-watches.
Psalm 63:1
O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.
Psalm 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to thee because of thy righteous ordinances.
Psalm 139:17-18
How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of LORD. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Luke 6:12
And he happened in these days to go out onto the mountain to pray, and he was continuing all night in prayer to God.