Psalms 119:55
I remember your name in the night, O Lord and observe your law.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
In Context
54Your statutes have been to me songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
56My lot has been this, that I have kept your precepts.
Cross References
Genesis 32:24Jacob was left alone, and someone wrestled with him until daybreak.
Psalms 42:8In the day I cry to the Lord to summon his kindness; and the song that I sing in the night is a prayer to the living God.
Psalms 77:6I commune with my heart in the night, I muse with inquiring spirit.
Psalms 119:34instruct me to keep your law, and I will observe it with all my heart.
Psalms 139:18Should I count, they are more than the sand. When I wake, I am still with you.
Luke 6:12Now about that time, Jesus went out, up the hill, to pray, and spent the whole 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 →