Psalms 119:148 · KJV
“Mine eyes prevent the {night} watches, that I might meditate in thy word.”
— Psalms 119:148
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Psalms 119 — Context
I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. {and I...: or, that I may keep}
147I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
148Mine eyes prevent the {night} watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
149Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
150They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Cross References
Psalms 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, {and} meditate on thee in the {night} watches.
Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Psalms 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 longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; {thirsty: Heb. weary} {where...: without water}
Psalms 139:17-18
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Psalms 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.