'Meditation' in the Bible
put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'
Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
To the Overseer, 'Concerning the Inheritances.' -- A Psalm of David. My sayings hear, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation.
Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!
Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
Sweet is my meditation on Him, I -- I do rejoice in Jehovah.
Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.
Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.
I pour forth before Him my meditation, My distress before Him I declare.
The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.