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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Quick answer
At midnight the psalmist rises to thank God for His righteous judgments. It matters because gratitude for God's word can fill even the deepest hours of the night.
Overview
Rising in the middle of the night, the psalmist offers thanks for God's righteous ordinances. His worship is not bound by convenient times but overflows continually. Such night-watch thanksgiving anticipates the heartfelt, unceasing praise of those who know the righteousness of God revealed in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Ps 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
- Ps 119:137You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
- Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- 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 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Ps 119:106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
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