I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
- BSB In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your 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 thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
- Ps 42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
- Isa 26:9With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
- Acts 16:25And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
- Ps 139:18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
- Job 35:9–10By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- Gen 32:24–28And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- John 14:21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
- Ps 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
- John 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
- Ps 119:17Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
- Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
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