In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
- KJV I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
- NKJV I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, And I keep Your law.
- NASB Lord, I remember Your name in the night, And keep Your Law.
- NLT I reflect at night on who you are, O Lord; therefore, I obey your instructions.
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Quick answer
In the night the psalmist remembers God's name and keeps His law. It matters because devotion to God and His word continues even in dark and quiet hours.
Overview
Through the night the psalmist calls God's name to mind and resolves to keep His law. His faithfulness does not depend on the comfort of daylight or company. This continual remembrance reflects a heart set on God, fulfilled in the believer's communion with Christ at all hours.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 63:6When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
- Ps 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.
- Isa 26:9My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
- Acts 16:25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
- Ps 139:18If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
- Job 35:9–10Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
- Gen 32:24–28So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
- John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- Ps 77:6At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
- John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
- Ps 119:17Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.
- Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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