Psalms 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
When I remember thee vpon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
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- Psalms 42:8Rank 1 from verse 6
- Psalms 119:147–148Rank 2 from verse 6
- Psalms 149:5Rank 3 from verse 6
- Psalms 119:55Rank 4 from verse 6
- Lamentations 2:19Rank 5 from verse 6
19Arise, 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.
19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift vp thy handes toward him, for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the top of euery streete.
- Psalms 139:17–18Rank 6 from verse 6
17How 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.
17*Howe precious also are thy thoughts vnto me, O God: how great is the summe of them?
18 If I should count them, they are moe in number then the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
- Psalms 77:4–6Rank 7 from verse 6
4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speake.
5I haue considered the dayes of old, the yeeres of auncient times.
6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine owne heart, and my spirit made diligent search.
- Song of Solomon 5:2Rank 8 from verse 6
2¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
2¶ I sleepe, but my heart waketh: it is the voyce of my beloued that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for my head is filled with dewe, and my lockes with the drops of the night.
- Song of Solomon 3:1–2Rank 9 from verse 6
1BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
1¶ By night on my bed I sought him whome my soule loueth. I sought him, but I found him not.
2I will rise now, and goe about the citie in the streets, and in the broad wayes I will seeke him whom my soule loueth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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Psalms 63:6
1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.
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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.
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Sense 1: A place for rest or sleep. Sense 2: The marriage bed or a place in which something lies. As a verb, to place or lie in a bed.
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To think upon, consider, ponder, muse, or attend closely to a matter; to devise or prearrange what one will say or do.
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1. At, upon, or in contact with the named place, object, side, or time. 2. Toward, against, concerning, depending upon, or directed to the named person or thing. 3. Forward or continuing; in joined expressions such as go on, put on, and lay hold on, the other words supply the particular action.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.
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Sense 1: Periods or duties of guarding or wakefulness, including divisions of the night. Sense 2: As a verb, observes or guards.
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5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
5†My soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse: and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lips:
6When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
6When I remember thee vpon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Selected passage7Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
7Because thou hast bene my helpe; therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I reioyce.