Psalms 119:55
In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
In Context
54Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
56This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.
Cross References
Genesis 32:24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Psalms 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 77:6At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
Psalms 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:55
54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Here is, 1. David's state and condition; he was in the house of his pilgrimage, which may be understood either as his peculiar trouble (he was often tossed and hurried, and forced to fly) or as his lot in common with all. This world is the house of our pilgrimage, the house in which we are pilgrims; it is our tabernacle; it is our inn. We must confess ourselves strangers and pilgrims upon earth, who are not at home here, nor must be here long. Even… Read the whole commentary →