Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy 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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My eyes anticipate [the] night watches, that [I may] meditate on 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 thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.
Psalm 63:1
O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
Psalm 119:62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous ordinances.
Psalm 139:17-18
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy 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 at the head of every street.
Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.