Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Meditation » The righteous delight in
Isaac went out to bow down [in prayer] in the field in the [early] evening; he raised his eyes and looked, and camels were coming.
My heart was hot within me.
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then I spoke with my tongue:
When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
I will meditate on all Your works
And thoughtfully consider all Your [great and wondrous] deeds.
May my meditation be sweet and pleasing to Him;
As for me, I will rejoice and be glad in the Lord.
I will meditate on Your precepts
And [thoughtfully] regard Your ways [the path of life established by Your precepts].
I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.
I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all that You have done;
I ponder the work of Your hands.
Night » Divided into watches
The next morning Saul put the men into three companies; and they entered the [Ammonites’] camp during the [darkness of the early] morning watch and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and the survivors were scattered, and no two of them were left together.
So it happened at the early morning watch [before dawn], that the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and put them in a state of confusion.
Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brothers, stood opposite them in their divisions of service.
“Arise, cry aloud in the night,
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint from hunger
At the head of every street.”
And in the fourth watch of the night (3:00-6:00 a.m.) Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when the guards had just been changed, and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.
When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.
Night » Meditations in
I will remember my song in the night;
I will meditate with my heart,
And my spirit searches:
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,
And the night will be the only light around me,”
The scriptures » Saints » Meditate in
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.