Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.
And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy 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 at the head of every street.
O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous ordinances.
I will meditate on thy precepts, And have respect unto thy ways.