My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate upon thy promise.
I will meditate on thy precepts, and fix my eyes on thy ways.
At midnight I rise to praise thee, because of thy righteous ordinances.
O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.
when I think of thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God.