Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might be occupied in thy words.

New American Standard Bible

My eyes anticipate the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.

King James Version

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

Holman Bible

I am awake through each watch of the night
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.

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.

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Qoph

147 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee; for in thy word is my trust. 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might be occupied in thy words. 149 Hear my voice, O LORD, according unto thy loving-kindness; quicken me, as thou art wont.


Cross References

Psalm 63:6

Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking?

Psalm 63:1

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.

Psalm 119:62

At midnight stand I up, to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.

Psalm 139:17-18

How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God! O how great is the sum of them!

Lamentations 2:19

{Kuf} Stand up and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night; pour out thine heart like water before the LORD. Lift up thine hands for the lives of thy young children that die of hunger in the streets.

Luke 6:12

And it fortuned in those days, that he went out into a mountain for to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

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