Psalms 119:55
I think about your name during the night, Yahweh, 1 and I keep your law. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 have been my songs 1 in the house where I temporarily live. 1
56This has been my practice 1 because I have observed your instructions. HETH 1
Cross References
Genesis 32:24Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Psalms 42:8Yet Yahweh will command his covenant faithfulness in the daytime; 1 in the night his song will be with me, 1 a prayer to the God of my life. 1
Psalms 77:6During the night I called to mind the song I once sang. 1 I thought carefully 1 and tried to understand what had happened. 1
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law; 1 I will observe it with all my heart. 1
Psalms 139:18If I tried to count them, they would be more in number than the sand. 1 When I awake, I am still with you. 1
Luke 6:12It happened in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray. He continued all 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 →