Psalms 119:148

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

ASV

Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

LSV

My eyes have gone before the watches, || To meditate on Your saying.

YLT

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

DBY

Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy *word.

DRC118:148

My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.

GNV

Mine eyes preuent the night watches to meditate in thy word.

JPS

Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, that I might meditate in Thy word.

LXXE118:148

Mine eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on thine oracles.

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Original-language editions

WLC

קִדְּמ֣וּ עֵ֭ינַי אַשְׁמֻר֑וֹת לָ֝שִׂ֗יחַ בְּאִמְרָתֶֽךָ׃

LXX-Br118:148

Προέφθασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου πρὸς ὄρθρον, τοῦ μελετᾷν τὰ λόγιά σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 63:6When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
• Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
• Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the…
• Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
• Psalms 139:17–18How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum! If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
• Psalms 119:62At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.

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