when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
Parallel translations
- KJV When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
- BSB When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
- NKJV When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
- NASB ¶When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,
- NLT I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 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 119:147–148I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
- Ps 149:5Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
- Ps 119:55I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
- Ps 139:17–18How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Lam 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
- Ps 77:4–6You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
- Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- Song 3:1–2By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
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