KJV King James Version
When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.
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Psalm 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
WEB World English Bible
when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
ASV American Standard Version
When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches—I meditate on Thee.
Surrounding context — Psalm 63
3 Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.
7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
9 But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
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Psalm 42:8[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.Psalm 119:147-148I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.Psalm 149:5Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.Psalm 119:55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.Psalm 77:4-6Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.Psalm 139:17-18How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!Lamentations 2:19Arise, 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.Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.Song of Solomon 3:1-2By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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