At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
Parallel translations
- KJV At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
- BSB At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.
- NKJV At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, Because of Your righteous judgments.
- NASB At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You Because of Your righteous judgments.
- NLT I rise at midnight to thank you for your just regulations.
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Cross-references · 12
- Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
- 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.
- Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
- Ps 119:164Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.
- Ps 119:7I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ps 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
- Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- Ps 119:137You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
- Ps 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Deut 4:8What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
- Ps 119:106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
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