Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes anticipate [the] night watches, that [I may] meditate on your word.
New American Standard Bible
That I may
King James Version
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Holman Bible
to meditate on Your promise.
International Standard Version
I look forward to the night watches, when I may meditate on what you have said.
A Conservative Version
My eyes anticipated the night-watches that I might meditate on thy word.
American Standard Version
Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
Amplified
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.
Bible in Basic English
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
Darby Translation
Mine eyes anticipate the night-watches, that I may meditate in thy word.
Julia Smith Translation
Mine eyes anticipated the watches to meditate in thy word.
King James 2000
My eyes awake before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
Modern King James verseion
My eyes go before the night watches, so that I might think on Your Word.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might be occupied in thy words.
NET Bible
My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.
New Heart English Bible
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
The Emphasized Bible
Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, To meditate in thy word.
Webster
My eyes anticipated the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
World English Bible
My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:148
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cross References
Psalm 63:6
When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in [the] night watches.
Psalm 63:1
O God, you [are] my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you [as] in a dry and weary land without water.
Psalm 119:62
[In the] middle of [the] night I rise to give you thanks, because of your righteous ordinances.
Psalm 139:17-18
And to me, how precious are your thoughts, O God; how vast is their sum.
Lamentations 2:19
"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."
Luke 6:12
Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.