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Psalms 63:6

I remember you while lying on my bed. I think about you in the middle of the night.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Joy;   Love;   Meditation;   Night;   Praise;   Salvation;   Seekers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Meditation;   Memory Spiritual;   Mind, Carnal-Spiritual;   Remember;   Remembrance;   Remembrance-Forgetfulness;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Help;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Communion with God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Praise;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Meditation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joy;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Day;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Cud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bed;   Bible, the;   Meditation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for April 14;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night.
English Revised Version
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Update Bible Version
When I remember you on my bed, [And] meditate on you in the night-watches.
New Century Version
I remember you while I'm lying in bed; I think about you through the night.
New English Translation
whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.
Webster's Bible Translation
When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.
World English Bible
When I remember you on my bed, And think about you in the night watches.
Amplified Bible
When I remember You on my bed, I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,
English Standard Version
when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So Y hadde mynde on thee on my bed, in morewtidis Y shal thenke of thee;
Berean Standard Bible
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Contemporary English Version
I think about you before I go to sleep, and my thoughts turn to you during the night.
American Standard Version
When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.
Bible in Basic English
When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am as satisfied as with rich food; my mouth praises you with joy on my lips
Darby Translation
When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth doth praise Thee with joyful lips;
King James Version (1611)
When I remember thee vpon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
New Life Bible
On my bed I remember You. I think of You through the hours of the night.
New Revised Standard
when I think of you on my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
Geneva Bible (1587)
When I remember thee on my bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night watches.
George Lamsa Translation
I remember thee upon my bed and I meditate on thee in the night watches.
Good News Translation
As I lie in bed, I remember you; all night long I think of you,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Should I call thee to mind upon my conch, In the watches of the night, would I breathe soft speech of thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(62-7) If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:
Revised Standard Version
when I think of thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My soule is satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnes: and my mouth prayseth thee with ioyfull lippes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Forasmuch as I have remembered thee on my bed: in the early seasons I have meditated on thee.
Christian Standard Bible®
When I think of you as I lie on my bed,I meditate on you during the night watches
Hebrew Names Version
When I remember you on my bed, And think about you in the night watches.
King James Version
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Lexham English Bible
When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches.
Literal Translation
when I remember You upon my bed. I will meditate on You in the night watches.
Young's Literal Translation
If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My soule is satisfied eue as it were with marry & fatnesse, when my mouth prayseth the with ioyfull lippes.
New American Standard Bible
When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,
New King James Version
When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,
Legacy Standard Bible
When I remember You on my bed,I meditate on You in the night watches,

Contextual Overview

3 Your faithful love is better than life, so my lips praise you. 4 By my life, I will praise you. In your name, I lift my hands in prayer. 5 When I sit down to satisfy my hunger, my joyful lips hunger to praise you! 6 I remember you while lying on my bed. I think about you in the middle of the night.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 42:8, Psalms 77:4-6, Psalms 119:55, Psalms 119:147, Psalms 119:148, Psalms 139:17, Psalms 139:18, Psalms 149:5, Song of Solomon 3:1, Song of Solomon 3:2, Song of Solomon 5:2, Lamentations 2:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 4:4 - commune Psalms 16:7 - in the Psalms 94:19 - General Psalms 104:34 - meditation Psalms 130:6 - waiteth Isaiah 21:8 - I stand Isaiah 26:9 - have I 1 Timothy 4:15 - Meditate

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I remember thee upon my bed,.... Or "beds" q; seeing he lay in many, as Kimchi observes, being obliged to flee from place to place. The sense is, that when he was on his bed in the night season, when alone, and free from worldly cares and fatigues, and called to mind the love of God to him, the past experience of his kindness, his promises to hits, and the fulfilment of them: that he should then be delightfully entertained, abundantly satisfied, slid his mouth be filled with songs of praise;

[and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches; which the Jewish writers on the text say were three, as they were with the Jews, but with the Romans four; :-; and the night, in the times of Homer r, was divided into three parts: the night season is a very proper one for meditation on the perfections, providences, promises, word and works of God; and which is very delightful and profitable, when attended with the presence, Spirit, and grace of God. The Targum is,

"in the watches I will meditate on thy word.''

q יצועי "stratis meis", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius; so Junius & Tremellius, Ainsworth. r Iliad. 10. v. 252, 253.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When I remember thee upon my bed - See the notes at Psalms 42:8. That is, when I lie down at night; when I compose myself to sleep. Nothing can be more proper than that our last thoughts, as we sink into quiet slumber, should be of God; of his being, his character, his mercy, his loving-kindness; of the dealings of his providence, and the manifestations of his grace toward us, during the day; and nothing is better suited to compose the mind to rest, and to induce quiet and gentle slumber, than the calmness of soul which arises from the idea of an Infinite God, and from confidence in him. Often when restless on our beds - when nothing else will lull the body to rest, the thought of God - the contemplation of his greatness, his mercy, and his love - the sweet sense of an assurance of his favor will soothe us, and cause us to sink into gentle repose. So it may be - so it will be - when we are about to sleep the long sleep of death, for then the most appropriate thoughts - the thoughts that will best prepare us for that long sleep - will be thoughts of God.

And meditate on thee in the night-watches - See the notes at Psalms 1:2. The word watches here refers to the ancient divisions of the night for municipal or military purposes - periods of the night assigned to different persons to keep watch around a camp or city. The most common division of the night was into three parts, though the arrangement varied at different times. See Matthew 14:25; Luke 12:38.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 63:6. When I remember thee upon my bed — I will lie down in thy fear and love; that I may sleep soundly under thy protection, and awake with a sense of thy presence and approbation; and when I awake in the night watches, or be awakened by them, I will spend the waking moments in meditation upon thee.


 
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