My eyes greet the night watches as I meditate on your promise.
I will ponder your precepts and consider your paths.
At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous judgments.
A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
My soul shall be sated as with choice food, with joyous lips my mouth shall praise you!
Rise up! Wail in the night, at the start of every watch; Pour out your heart like water before the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, Who collapse from hunger at the corner of every street.
In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.