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

Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

"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."

And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,

And at the door of the tent of appointment shall ye sit day and night seven days, and watch the watches of Jehovah, and ye shall not die: for so I was commanded.

For a thousand years in thine eyes as the day of yesterday, for it shall pass away, and watches in the night.