KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 119:147–148
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Psalms 119:147
147I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
147I preuented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Psalms 119:148
148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
148Mine eyes preuent the night watches: that I might meditate in thy word.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:147
Anticipated or came before in time.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The first appearance of light in the morning; the first opening or appearance of the intellectual powers; beginning.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Desired with expectation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Psalms 119:148
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
To go or come before; to anticipate.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Periods or duties of guarding or wakefulness, including divisions of the night; as a verb, observes or guards.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Power or strength; also an auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To consider deeply, dwell upon in thought, or purpose in the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 147
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Open the full verse study35And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
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Open the full verse study3My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
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Open the full verse study5I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
6My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
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Open the full verse study13But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
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Open the full verse study74They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
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Open the full verse study81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
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Open the full verse study8Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
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Open the full verse study4In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
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Open the full verse study17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
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Open the full verse study9With 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.
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Open the full verse study2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
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Open the full verse study8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
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Open the full verse study3For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
From verse 148
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Open the full verse study6When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
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Open the full verse study19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
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Open the full verse study12And 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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Open the full verse study17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
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Open the full verse study1O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
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Open the full verse study62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
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