Psalms 63:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 63:6

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

KJV

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ASV

When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.

WEB

When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

YLT

If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches--I meditate on Thee.

DBT

When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

18 verses on the floor

Psalms 42:8
Yet 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.
Psalms 119:147–148
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Psalms 149:5
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
Psalms 16:7
I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Psalms 119:55
I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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How David employed himself in thinking of God. God was in all his thoughts, which is the reverse of the wicked man's character, Ps. x. The thoughts of God were ready to him: " I remember thee; that is, when I go to think, I find thee at my right hand, present to my mind." This subject should first offer itself, as that which we cannot forget or overlook.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Past favors assure him of future, and hence he presses earnestly near to God, whose power sustains him (Ps 17:8; 9, 10. those . . . to destroy it--or literally, "to ruin," or, "for ruin"; that is, such as seek to injure me (are) for ruin, appointed to it (compare Ps 35:8). shall go . . . earth--into the grave, or, to death; as their bodies are represented as a portion for--

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 63:6PSA 42:8 JOB 35:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 63:6PSA 149:5 PSA 42:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 63:6PSA 42:8 PSA 16:7
PSA 63:6PSA 42:8 PSA 149:5
PSA 63:6PSA 42:8 DEU 28:8
PSA 63:6PSA 42:8 PSA 133:3
PSA 63:6PSA 119:55 ISA 26:9
PSA 63:6PSA 149:5 1PE 1:8

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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