I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, And I 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.
- BSB In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may 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, and think about you in the night watches.
- Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- Ps 139:18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
- Job 35:9–10“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- Gen 32:24–28Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
- John 14:21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- Ps 77:6I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
- John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
- Ps 119:17Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
- Luke 6:12In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all 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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