My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
I rose before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.
When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am stationed in my post whole nights:
[A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.